Encounter With God - Session 1 — Greg Frizzell

The Missing Element in Spiritual Awakening

And it was just really odd. The Lord said, Come to Petaluma. And now I really know why when I've been hearing what God has been doing here it's really miraculous the journey He's had you on. And the great thing about that, the Word of God says He who has begun a good work in us will bring it to completion.

You haven't seen anything yet. I mean there's no telling what God is going to do. We're seeing that around the country. There's a little group of churches that they're getting a handle on prayer and really surrendering to Jesus.

And four or five years later, it is so different. They're so much larger, but not just in number, in Jesus being real. And it's so exciting. Let me clear up one thing right here real quick. I know you're wondering what kind of accent is that that you have.

Okay. Well, now this is a weird accent. I'm from Tennessee and I pastored a church in Memphis for 17 years. I've been in Oklahoma for eight years. I always ask when I go up north in Canada, what kind of accent is that?

You are hearing an official Tennehoma accent somewhere in the middle. I don't know where, but you know, no matter what our accents are, we're family and God is up to something that is absolutely incredible.

And so what we're going to do tonight is share a missing element that God's people are getting back and it's allowing Him to be about 10 times more real, I'm not exaggerating, than we've known Him to be in the last 40 years.

In fact, if I were to ask you, can you remember 1905, I know what you'd say, hopefully you couldn't, but you know what? That's the last time we've seen anything like a great awakening in this country.

In fact, that really wasn't a big one. In fact, the last 40 or 50 years are not only not an awakening, it's the worst moral and spiritual collapse we've ever seen in the history of this country and that's a big statement.

But God is doing something right now in little churches and big churches and folks across this country and literally a church this size, I know some this size, when they get a handle on where you're going in prayer, within two or three years some of them are seeing like three, two or three hundred people come to Christ in a single year.

And it's not some great strategy, it's not some great, it's just the presence of God becoming so real. I wouldn't be surprised if that's not where you're headed. And you say, what do we do with them? God will work that out.

That's a good problem. Now, how many of you have read some of the book, Returning to Wholeness, okay? All right, now be real honest, how many of you expected me to be maybe a little older and a lot, a lot bigger and maybe even a little mean looking, right?

Maybe real mean looking, okay. Let me explain something about that Returning to Wholeness book, okay. You're going to be real pleasantly surprised, so don't breathe fire, okay? And no, it's all about grace.

That book is designed to bring us to conviction. But remember, God doesn't convict us to condemn us. He convicts us to point us straight to grace, straight to Jesus to set us free because we're all a work in progress.

I probably should clarify, the goal is not to be able to work through the whole book and not see anything in your life that needs to be worked on because we all are a work in progress. So, we're going to really see this weekend how God can bring great cleansing, yes, holiness, and it's not legalism, but a wholeness that comes from joy and His presence and it comes by a missing element that we're going to recapture in America.

I've been to India and China. God is mightily at work. They've got this missing element and we're going to see what it is. I'm going to ask you to take your Bible and turn to Isaiah chapter 59 and verse 1.

Isaiah 59 verse 1 and also we'll look a lot tonight in John 15 4. Now, while you're finding Isaiah 59 and 1 and we'll turn to John 15 4 and don't worry if you miss something. We have two or three more books out there and you can get them for a couple of bucks.

How's that? You can get them bookstore for ten if you want to, but you can get them two here, so that's a pretty good deal. If you don't have two, take one free, okay? So, they've got all these scriptures in them and so if you miss something, don't worry.

It'll be there for you in the books. Now, while you're finding those scriptures, I want you to think about a question. There's a little remnant. Now, remnant means a little minority of folks. These are teenagers, senior adults, everybody in the middle, but there's a little minority of believers in the past three to five years, a sign of revival.

Here's what's happened to them. See if you're in this group. Their personal prayer life has not grown a little bit. It has exploded. I mean, they're losing track of time now when they pray and they're saying that God's voice is about five times more real to them than they ever knew it could be, and they're sensing a joy.

Even though they've still got problems. We're going to have problems in this life. God doesn't always say yes to prayer, but they've got a joy that's kind of supernatural. It doesn't depend on a bank account or their health.

It's just the real presence of God, and they're seeing mountains move. I mean, things they've been praying for for years in their families, their kids, their grandkids. They're really now seeing some miraculous movements.

We're seeing churches have been dead a long time. We're not growing, but now they're really exploding in growth and seeing so many come to Christ. Now, can you say, brother, you are describing me? Probably a lot of you can say that.

But maybe some of us would say, well, not quite. I'm headed that way, but not quite there. You're not in real biblical revival yet. Well, it's really happening, and it's happening because of what we're going to be looking at.

There's a missing element. We didn't mean for it to be missing, but in our busy society, there's a missing element that's keeping God from moving here like He is in India, China. And we're going to see what that is.

And the great news is it's not hard. The great news is this missing element that allows the Lord to be so much more real is not out of reach. Anybody can do it. A child can do it if we just understand how to really let Him be Lord of our heart.

And it's His grace. That's the beauty of it. Friends, I always pray before I read the Word of God. It's so holy to read Scripture. And so let's bow before Him right now. And I know you're not here to hear me.

We're here to sit before Him. Let's just bow our hearts before God right now. And in the quiet of this moment, would you just focus your total attention on the One who died for you? And He's in this room right now by the Holy Spirit.

He is worthy of all our praise and all of our attention all the time. Maybe just in the quiet of your heart, you would just thank God for giving His only Son for you. Just praise Him for Jesus. Maybe you would praise Him that His grace is greater than all of our sin and weakness.

He accepts us. Would you thank Him for His power that's greater than our greatest impossibilities? Nothing's hard for God. Would everyone in here ask God to give me His words and the Holy Spirit to share them?

Oh, Father, we bow before You, God. We worship You. God, we confess that You are the God. There is none beside You. There is no other name to be praised, God. There is no other kingdom that matters, God.

Lord, we know we matter because we matter to You and are in Your image. Oh, God, thank You that You're in this room. Lord, that You love us so much. You know about our failures, but You justify us. Oh, God, thank You with You nothing's impossible.

Father, thank You that across this country there's a group of believers that are exploding in closeness with You and hearing You and being used of You. God, thank You for what You're doing in this church, this pastor.

Father, we trust You. These moments will be life-changing for some in this room. Give us a new vision, God, of who You've really called us to be and, God, what You want to do in us and through us. Father, take us out of our doubts and our limits.

Oh, God, thank You with You all things are possible. Lord, get me out of the way. Let us hear You, not only hear You, but God, let us obey You by grace. In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray these things.

Amen. Well, what we're seeing is that God is moving us toward a possible awakening. I have to be honest with you, though, if we don't have a great awakening, we can't even imagine where this country will be within five to ten years.

It is an incredibly urgent moment. But if we do have another great awakening, we've had two in our history. I know we don't remember those. The last one was in the 1800s. You know what would happen, though, if God did again what He's done before?

Think about it. There'd be somewhere between 25 and 35 million Americans be tremendously born again and join churches in about the next two or three years. That would change everything from Washington to Hollywood and everything in the middle.

I mean, it'd change everything about all of us. And He's really done that, and He's beginning to do it again in His little remnant. Even not do it in the whole country, you can do it in your church, you can do it in your family, your life.

But there's a missing element. There's a reason that it hasn't happened yet. This is what it is. Isaiah chapter 59, verse 1. The people of God, in Isaiah 58, it says they'd been just praying and praying and praying and praying.

And they were seeing God do some things, but a lot of mountains, frankly, weren't moving. Maybe you're there a little bit. You've been seeing God do some things, but there's some mountains hadn't moved yet.

And some, just things not yet to happen. And so they were wondering, why are we praying and we're not seeing the mountains move yet? At least not all of them. And they'd been fasting. They'd been doing a lot of fasting.

And they just loved to pray, it said in Isaiah 58. It even says they'd confessed sin to the point they'd put their face on the ground and put sackcloth on and ashes on their head. Now that's pretty intense prayer.

We're not doing anything like that. But they were doing all that stuff. And you know what? God wasn't breaking through. They weren't seeing a lot of big answers. You know, we still hadn't seen revival yet, so we're not quite there yet either.

And they were saying, why are we doing all this praying yet God's not moving like we want Him to? And God answered their prayer, their question. He's saying the same thing to us and it's the missing element that will revolutionize your life.

And I want to give a quick testimony. I shouldn't be preaching anywhere or writing any books, but because of the beautiful little truth I'm going to share with you tonight, God's done everything He's done in my life.

And I'll share more about that later. I had a disease that did great damage to my neurological system. In other words, it did real serious brain damage. People say, oh, now we can tell that. Well, it wasn't the kind of brain damage that would make you dumb, but it totally destroyed my energy and wiped me out.

And doctors said, you'll have to quit pastoring and you won't be writing any more books and you won't have the energy to speak anymore, and they were right. And on top of that, the Lord didn't heal me.

Yet that was 25 books ago and 2 million miles of conferences ago. I still feel terrible most days, but yet I've got a lot more joy than I ever had in my life and a lot more power than I ever dreamed of when I was healthy.

You say, man, are you crazy? What are you talking about? What we're about to read is how the Lord doesn't always say yes to every prayer, but he'll always give us grace if we'll let him do what we're about to read.

Now, Isaiah 59, God answered them. This is why he wasn't doing more in their life. And here's what he said. And it shocked them. It's the same to us. And he said, behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save.

Now, that's what he was saying is I hadn't lost my power. There's no power shortage in heaven. Thank you. What he was saying is you're praying, but the power disconnect does not appear. So it means it's got to be down here in us somewhere.

Okay. But then he said something else that was almost a little humorous, although I don't think God meant it funny, but they had a habit back in that day. If God wasn't hearing prayer, do you know what they did?

They turned the volume up. You said, what do you mean? They started screaming and shouting their prayers. They actually thought maybe it's just not loud enough to get all the way to heaven. So they would just scream their prayers.

God's pretty practical. Look what he said. He said, neither is the Lord's ear heavy that it cannot hear. In plain English, he said, I don't need a hearing aid. He was saying, I hadn't lost my power. I can move mountains.

I can part seas. He's saying, he's saying, I can hear just fine. He said, you're praying and praying, you're fasting and fasting, but he's saying there's a missing element. And then he told them what it was and it shocked them.

He said, your iniquities have separated you from your God and your sins have caused him to hide his face from you so that he will not hear you. But wait a minute here. These people were putting on sackcloth and ashes and putting their face on the ground begging God to forgive their sins.

Why would God say that to them who were confessing more than we are, frankly? Why would he say that this is so crucial? It's killed us, at least some of the power in America. They've fallen into the same trap many do today.

They were confessing sins on the surface. They were doing the favor. I kind of have a Baptist background, although that doesn't matter. God's church is a lot bigger than that. But they were a Baptist prayer which says, Lord, forgive all my sins.

Now bless me. That's not a bad prayer. But if it doesn't go any deeper than that, it really can become just a cop out. That's what they were doing. They were kind of saying, Lord, forgive our sins, and they just kind of do that general thing.

Or they might name one or two that was safe that really they didn't mind letting that one go. And God was saying, you're not fooling me with that. He's saying, you're not really letting me go down into the depth of your heart where I really want to have all of you.

He can't really fill our heart if he doesn't have our heart. He can't be the Lord of your heart and fill you with the mighty Holy Spirit if he doesn't have full access to your heart. And he's not going to bull in and take you over like a robot.

Sometimes I think we wish he would, don't we? So don't you wish there was a holy pill you could take it once and you're good for a month? Wouldn't that be great? But there's no such thing. He says, I want you to choose to let me search your heart.

Choose to let me fully have your heart. And he's not going to make us. In 2 Corinthians 7, 1, he says we're to cleanse ourselves. Now it's his grace. It's not us. But he's saying, cleanse ourselves of all filthiness of the flesh and spirit.

We'll be doing that as a journey to the day we die. But we have to be on the journey. We can't be stopping and settling down. So what they had done, they'd kind of fallen into the religious thing. In other words, really they were seeking God's hand about ten times more than his face.

They were really doing a lot of God bless me, fix me, do this, comfort me, take care of this, kind of like a magic genie, kind of like a JCPenney catalog. And God sees through that. But they weren't saying, Lord, have all my heart.

Lord be the total Lord of my heart, my attitudes, my thoughts, my time. And they were missing that. And what he was saying is, you're confessing but not really letting me change you deep down. And that's a process.

In fact, there's a passage in Proverbs that really kind of sums it up. And it's really a missing element in many parts of America. Now tell me if I'm quoting this right. I want to do a little test here.

Tell me if I've got it right. The Word of God says, and I'm not going to give you the verse because I want you to tell me if I've got it right. It says, "...whosoever covers his sin shall not prosper.".

And to cover means either to deny it, oh, that's not really a sin. Or it means to just, really it means just not look at it. Long ago they'd put blinders on the mule so they couldn't see anything. You'd only look at it straight ahead.

Sometimes we get that way about our own hearts. You know, we'll say, Lord, is there anything in my heart I need to really surrender and deal with? I didn't think so. And I'm not about to take a good look, you know.

Or, Lord, would you search my heart? I want you to be the Lord of my life. Lord, is there anything I need to turn from? I didn't think so. Here's my prayer list, you know. We don't mean to, but we really kind of slide a little bit into that.

Or we'll get a little more spiritual than that, Lord, search my heart. I want you to be the total Lord of my heart, and Lord, you have 15 seconds. Now we wouldn't really say that, but studies show that's kind of what's happened in a lot of folks' prayer lives today.

We didn't mean to, but we're doing what they were doing. So he says, "...whosoever covers his sin or won't look at their sin or just kind of glosses over the top of it cannot prosper.". But it goes on to say, "...whosoever confesses his sin shall have mercy.".

Now wait a minute. Is that right? Or did I leave something out? Sounds good. "...whosoever confesses his sin shall have mercy.". Sounds great. What I just told you is wrong. It's not right, and it's the thing that's blocking a lot of the power.

And friends, this is important. When we're saved and know Him, He's so gracious, He'll do some things in our life. But there's so much more He'll do if we really let Him go deep. The word that I read to you actually says this, "...whosoever confesses and forsakes his sin shall have mercy.".

So what's happened to a lot of people, and we didn't even mean for it to, we've begun to kind of confess things on the top, not let Him really search down into the heart, or we'll confess things, but we don't turn from them.

And we've gotten into a pattern where studies show many are actually confessing the same sins over and over and over and over. And it's really not any different now than it was a year ago. Maybe somebody's got the same temper they had, or the same wrong thoughts, and though we're confessing it, but yet there's not a process of cleansing and victory going on, and so we've kind of, without meaning to, gotten stuck, I guess, in first gear.

And first gear's not bad. God's doing some things, and we're seeing some answers and some joy, but there's a second, third, fourth, and an overdrive that He wants to take us to. And that only comes by the deep cleansing of the heart.

And this is not about getting beat up. This is not about negativism or getting put down or getting shamed. It's about getting set free. The Lord doesn't say, let me search your heart so I can make you just feel terrible.

He doesn't say, let me search your heart so I can beat you up, but so I can transform you and set you free and give you real joy, real life, real power, and so His voice becomes incredibly clear. But that's the missing element.

In America, without meaning to, you know, we're the instant society. We like everything instant quick. Did you know we invented everything instant? That's right. Instant coffee, instant tea, instant soup, instant breakfast, instant everything.

Instant banking, you name it. It's instant. We invented it. We like things quick and on the run. And that's great with those things, but you know what else we tried to invent? Instant quiet times. Instant depth with God.

No must, no fuss. Little dab will do you, you know. Just a little bit's all you need. Wait a minute, though. That's not exactly Scripture, is it? Now, it isn't hard. It doesn't take two or three hours a day, but He's saying, I want to take you deeper.

And John 15, 4 tells exactly how. If you'll turn there, people are recapturing this, and it is incredible. They're recapturing what the Lord really means by a powerful prayer like, you know, there's different levels of prayer.

Not all prayer is the same. Some Americans think prayer is prayer. It's all powerful. It really isn't. Some prayers don't have much power because they're not biblical, and they're not in the power of God.

He doesn't have to answer them. He won't. But God has taken us now to the missing element where prayers, as God says, become mountain moving. Isn't it great God wants to move mountains? Folks, isn't it great God is not stingy?

And He's not angry. And He's not unkind. And He's so merciful. He's so gracious. Man, He loves to work miracles. He loves to save people. He loves to hear prayer. But we have to understand, He really is a holy God.

He's not a JCPenney catalog. He's not Santa Claus. He's not just the success coach. He is the holy Lord of the universe, and that's the majority of His message. That's how He transforms us. And then His power is everywhere.

Abiding in Christ and Bearing Much Fruit

And so, John 15 .4 is how Jesus is absolutely transforming people. We're seeing husbands and wives learn this. You wouldn't believe what God's doing in their kids. It's incredible. John 15 .4, Jesus said this, Abide in Me, and it's really a command.

He said, Abide in Me, or remain in Me, and I in you. As a branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in Me. It goes on to say, I am the vine, and here's what we are.

You are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, and look at this, bears a little fruit. Is that what the Bible says? He who abides in Me bears a little fruit. Oh, no. It says you're going to bear much fruit.

Well, much fruit by whose definition? By our definition? No, God's definition. What kind of fruit is that? What does He mean by much fruit? Well, you remember an old guy named Peter that was just a fisherman.

He wasn't educated and all that. It wasn't fancy. And in fact, at one point, Jesus warned him. He said, You're all going to leave me. He said, They may leave you. I'll never leave you. I'm going to die for you right now.

He said, Before the rooster even crows, nor are you going to deny me three times. And Peter started cursing and swearing and saying, I don't even know the man. But remember what he was doing just a few weeks after this?

The Lord, isn't God's grace wonderful? He could let anybody give the sermon on the day of Pentecost. He let Peter give it. He'd been cursing and swearing and saying he didn't even know him a few weeks earlier.

But now God had changed him. Now he was up preaching, and he would have flunked a preaching course. It wasn't three points and a poem in there anywhere. It was a terrible sermon. But the power of God was so on old Peter that literally 3 ,000 people got baptized publicly.

They became a public enemy of the Roman government. You talk about power. They were willing to risk their life. They were so changed. That's much fruit. Now, that doesn't mean we all do that. But God isn't little.

He's not stingy. He wants to flow through you in much fruit. I mean, power. I mean, reality where he's real to you, even if he doesn't heal your Lyme's disease, that you got joy anyway. I discovered there was something better than healing sometimes.

It's him being so real to you that even though you got a lot of pain, it just doesn't much matter because his grace is real, and it's okay, and it's real. He's talking about much fruit. But he's saying this will only happen if you really abide in me.

Now, the fact is, with many believers today, studies show it is a little fruit. What's the fruit he's talking about here, by the way? Well, that's great news. This fruit will solve every problem we got, meet every need.

Most of all, it'll glorify God. The fruit he's talking about is the fruit of the Holy Spirit. That's at least part of what he's talking about. And think about the incredible fruit of the Holy Spirit. That's just the life of God.

In fact, Jesus said, if you believe in me, really believe, he means, a river of living water is going to gush out of the innermost being. That's the presence of God. That's the life of God. Folks, we can't work up holiness.

We can't work up joy. Have you ever tried to just grit your teeth and be joyful when you just feel awful? It doesn't work, does it? Have you ever tried to work up peace when you're just scared to death?

But he's saying, I will give you a supernatural sense of these fruits. That's the fruit, the love. Can you love your enemies? Not in the human strength we can. He said, I'll give you a love that's for your enemies.

The kind of love where you hung on a cross and said, Father, forgive them while they crucified. And we can't do that. But he's saying, I'll give you that kind of love. The fruit of the Spirit, I'll give you joy.

You remember Paul and Silas in the Bible? They were in prison, thought they might get their heads cut off the next morning. And they were in there moaning and groaning, right? They were in there singing.

How were they singing loud? It made the Bible. They had so much joy. Folks, this is real. I've been with people in India who knew they were going to die. They were out there under persecution. And they looked at me and they said, when we go back to our communities, they know who we are.

And they've already killed some of us. And some of us are going to die. We know it. We're afraid they're going to take our children. And they did. There's nothing more sacrifice than that. I never will forget them looking me in the eye and saying, we are so honored to give our lives for the Savior.

I've never seen joy like that. That's what he's talking about. You know, it's silly some of the things we worry about. Some of the things we let take our joy. He's saying, I'll give you a supernatural joy.

And you know, the old fourth fruit of the Holy Spirit, it's not near as popular. Who can tell me what the fourth fruit of the Holy Spirit is? Well, the old King James has long suffering. And one of the others is gentleness.

You know, if we had a big conference and spent a million dollars promoting it, but it was a long suffering and gentleness conference. I wonder how many people would show up. I can tell you about 10 people would show up.

Now, here's the point. That's not big to us. But that's huge to God. He wants to fill us with gentleness and patience. Wouldn't it be impossible to have a good old fight in a marriage? If both of you full of unconditional love and great patience, it'd ruin a good fight every time, wouldn't it?

You know what else it would ruin? It'd ruin an awful lot of anxiety. If we're full of a supernatural peace, it's going to be impossible to have a bunch of anxiety. If we're full of a supernatural, miraculous joy, unless your problem is physical.

And sometimes it is. We need a doctor. But a lot of times it's emotional, spiritual. And he's saying, I'll give you a joy that's unspeakable and doesn't depend on your bank account, doesn't depend on your situation.

And it's real, folks. It's very real. And that kind of passion for souls, you can't work up passion to see people saved. You can't guilt yourself into it. But he says, if you'll let me have your heart, if you'll abide in me, that's the real key to the whole thing.

So here's the point. If you and I are not, if our prayer life is really not moving a lot of mountains and his voice is not clearer than our husband, wife, or best friend, I'm not exaggerating. If we're abiding in him, his presence is going to become very real.

And I'm not talking about being strange. If you're hearing voices in the air, I don't know if I'd tell anybody, OK? Now, sometimes he speaks like that. Sometimes, but most of the time, he speaks by his spirit through scripture.

But he speaks very real in your heart. And you know it's him. And this is the fruit he's talking about, God being real. And he says, like a river, not a little trickle, much fruit, not little fruit. But studies show most believers aren't really experiencing this.

We're not. It is a little fruit. It is a little touch. And even a little touch is great. But God now wants to turn the power on. He really does. Well, how does he do it? The key is abiding. He said, look, if you abide, this is going to be happening.

But if you don't abide, he says, you can't do anything. Now, going to church is not necessarily abiding. Doing study courses is not necessarily abiding. The word abide here is a relationship term. In the Greek text, it literally meant to remain in.

But it really means to stay absolutely close to. I love to put it this way. It's learning how to live so that nothing is blocking the flow of Jesus in your life. Nothing is blocking his presence to transform, to use you, to pray through you, to love through you.

And that's what happens. If things get in the way, then the river is blocked up. And look at verse six. He says, if anyone does not abide in me, he's cast out as a branch and he's withered. Boy, have you ever felt withered?

I mean, the joy is not there. This voice is not real. You're kind of dry. The temper is there. It's hard to love. The wrong thoughts are there. And you're trying and you're trying. You're gritting your teeth.

But boy, you're fighting and you're just, it's just, you're withered. And we go through times like that. And we're going to have battle in this. Well, I'm not talking about a miracle day and goosebumps all the time.

You walk with Jesus. It's not always going to be that way. But it's always going to be real and powerful. So what does abide mean? That's the key to everything. And here's the problem. In our busy instant society, we've missed the biblical.

Some have missed the biblical understanding of what He really means by abiding. You know what inoculation means? You get a weakened version of something that keeps you from getting the real thing. And we don't even know what's happened to us.

That's really happened in busy America. We've gotten inoculated sometimes from biblical prayer. We've got a little taste of it and it's great. But we haven't gone into the depth. So abiding is three things.

To be really close to somebody, you have to talk to them a lot, not a little. And you have to talk to them about things that are deep, not the weather, not surface things. Well, that's your prayer life.

And so what's happening right now in that little remnant, that little minority, their prayer life has gone to a whole new level with God. Their prayer life has embraced God's heart by letting Him cleanse their heart deeply.

You know, that was right in the middle of the Lord's prayer. God, forgive us our trespasses. And He didn't mean that as a little general prayer, because in the same sentence, do you remember what He said?

God, forgive us our trespasses as what? As we forgive others. Boy, that puts it in a whole different light. That means you can't say, God, forgive my sins now, bless me. Uh-uh. He's saying you have to let Him really look in your heart and make sure no anger, no bitterness is hiding down there because it hides so easily and real quick and we don't see it.

You know, we'll say, I've forgiven them, but we say it with clenched teeth. Or we'll say, I've let it go, but I still got that speech I'd like to give to certain people. And so it's hiding on us so that what he's talking about, the powerful prayer is where we really know how to let Him have our whole heart.

And it's not hard and it doesn't take three hours a day, but it does take an intentional willingness to let Him take us deeper. The Lord's prayer, it's got about five elements in it. But the problem is many people's prayer life has about two as far as any depth, but God's changing that.

So He says, if you'll let me take you to a stronger prayer life, and a child can do this. He's saying it won't be long till the river will be flowing. You ever seen an apple tree or standing out in a field just straining so hard to bear apples?