Unusual prayer is prayer that has power to transform and get results, prayer that indeed connects us with God, and prayer that brings growth and revival. 

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Unusual Faith

Rivelino Montenegro

How is Science Confirming the Biblical View of Our Common Ancestor?

JoAnn Davidson

The Great Sabbath Welcome: Revisiting the Glories of God’s Gift of Time

Pavel Goia

Unusual Prayer

Clifford Goldstein

Baptizing the Devil

Father in humbleness, we come in your presence and thank you so much for your love that is greater than our Capability to understand greater than our mind greater than our imagination Thank you for Jesus.

Thank you for this privilege to learn more about how to connect with you.

Please, open the world for us, touch every heart, and transform us.

In Jesus' name and merits we pray and thank you, Lord.

So, I will not try to offend you, but I may challenge you a little.

If you don't feel comfortable, don't take what you don't like, okay?

If you get upset with me, I will pray for you.

Can it be, just think about it, can it be that you pray, you keep Sabbath, you go to church, you study the Bible, You get involved in ministry, you do evangelism, you go to camp meeting, you do all the good stuff, and you are lost and you don't know that you are lost.

How do you know if you don't know that you don't know?

How do you measure, how do you search to make sure that you are okay?

Whatever we do, Literally, whatever we do for God, unless we do it with God, has no value.

You cannot keep the doctrines of the God if you don't have the God of the doctrines.

And so many times we get so far into religion and so far into service and so far into doctrines That we have the risk to forget the real connection with God where the power comes from.

And if we have no power, whatever we try to do, we never accomplish anything.

And that's the reason we pray for God's blessing and we pray that God would help with this and that and that.

And we never experience power and results.

Because we should not pray for God's blessings but first for God.

God has a plan for us and we go and give God our plan and ask God to bless our plan instead of seeking his plan.

His plan is usually different than our plan.

If the plan that you have is not crazy, it's yours.

God's plans are as far as heaven to earth from our plans.

God's plans and wisdom are foolishness for us.

God would come to Noah and say, build an ark.

If you were Noah, when it never rained, would you build an ark and spend 120 years Building an ark would you?

God's told Joseph I'm gonna put you over your brothers over your parents over your family And then God put him in prison.

He was a slave in a prison in Egypt God told Moses you are going to deliver my people and send him in the wilderness 40 40 40 years Would you accept that plan?

Because God, before using you, he has to break you.

God cannot use somebody wise and smart and good and experienced.

And before God can use you, he needs to break you on me and to teach us faith that has no doubts because when we doubt God, we make him a liar.

When you doubt God's promises, Ellen White says we make him a liar in Selected Messages Volume 1.

It is Satan's plan that we doubt God and we trust self.

In fact, when we seek our plan, Ellen White says, anytime we seek our plan, we focus on self.

We Show Satan's character she says Did you hear you don't want me to repeat that do you I Have the Quotation on my cell phone literally when I showed it to 1 of the meetings where I spoke people like wow Can you imagine that every time you seek something for self you show you exhibit Satan's character?

Jesus did not come to serve self, he came to serve others.

Jesus did not pray for self, he prayed for others.

In fact, 1 time in his life he prayed for self.

It was in the garden, he said, please take the cup away.

And he told us to follow him and to serve.

Miracles that he did, he did not do them for self.

He didn't say, heal me, give me bread, solve my job problem, My foreclosure.

Moses said, take my name off the book of life and save them.

Would you be willing to say, Lord, Take my name off the book of life and save that and that would you do that?

He became like God Paul says I would rather be another mother means cut off from the book of life if you would save them.

When you start serving, God doesn't need you to serve.

God doesn't need you or me to serve, but only, Elenoi says, by service we learn to surrender self and to focus on God and others.

And the more we focus on others and invest in others, The more we are transformed, she says in the book Prayer, into his image, we become more and more like Jesus when we forget self and serve others.

So God wants you to serve because that's the way you grow.

Now Imagine every time we serve self, we ask God to do something against his character.

It is better to focus on God and let him focus on you, than you focusing on you.

Therefore every morning we should say, Lord, what is your plan for me today?

Not my works and his blessing, but God's plan.

For instance, I was talking to 1 of my church members, I'm not going to tell you the place or the name.

Series

Unusual Faith

Unusual Prayer

Transcript

Description

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Morning Devotional

Chosen

49m

SPARK: How to Start a Fire for the Lord in Your Church

SPARK: How to Start a Fire for the Lord in Your Church- Part 2

1h 10m

Breakout Session C

Lost Opportunities

44m

Pandemic at the Door

Pandemic of Addiction

50m

GYC SE 2012 Plenary Sessions

Where Am I Going?

1h

The Adventist Cannibal

35m

The Urgency of the Gospel

35m

Witnessing With the Word

59m

COVID-19 Update with Dr. Roger Seheult

1h 4m

Christian Service and Character

45m

What If It's Better?

The Silence of God

46m

The Unused Gift

44m

Sound Doctrine