Restoration 2022

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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Prayer by Gem Castor

Gem Castor

He is Faithful

Peace in the Storm

Give Him Praise

For His Glory

Sunday Morning Devotional

Gentle Healer

Relentless Pursuit

From Garbage to Gold

Greater Works Than This

Give Him Back His Throne

How Big is God

When people ask me if there's an instrument that I play, I just tell them I play the DVD.

I was just inspired by the testimony of Brittany.

It's just so encouraging, friends, knowing that it's not because of our skills, it's not because of our talent, it's Jesus in us that makes the difference.

And as I see that, she was just like, I don't know about you.

She might not be jumping up in excitement, but I could just sense the joy.

And Francis, it's the thing that I realized that the Lord wants to dwell in us before we could share Him.

And just imagine how the Lord opens up door after door after door.

And I believe this is what the Lord desires for each 1 of us.

If we be a church like that, my dear friends, just imagine coming to a church, coming to a church whose every member is overflowing with Christ.

Everyone is not so excited about that, huh?

Oh friends, God has just been so good and He always is.

So we started the restoration last night by asking the Lord to somehow dig deep into our hearts and expose to us What are the things that He needs to make right with Him that none of the blessings will ever be withheld.

So as we continue on with this morning's talk, I'd like to invite all of us again, since I have a very good excuse right now to ask you to pray because this is about prayer.

So let's offer more prayer this week than any other restoration.

So turn to the person beside you and let's ask once again that the Lord will pour upon us His Spirit and let us praise Him.

Let us start by praising Him, by thanking Him for who He has been and who He is to each and every 1 of us.

Yes, dear Father, may the praises of our lips, may the thanksgiving of our hearts will be a sweet, sweet sound to your ears.

Lord, once again we ask that may you prepare our hearts for what you're about to do to us and through us and in us today.

We ask this in the loving and precious name of your Son Jesus all your children say, Amen.

Friends, can you imagine if every worship it started with this?

If every meeting will be started with us Bowing before God, really intentionally asking for His presence.

Sometimes our prayer is just very casual or very, what do you call this?

We just come before God's presence and we do not really seek him, seek him with all of our hearts.

And it's nice when everything is silence and we know the reason why we're here is because of him.

It's not because of the organizers, it's because of him.

And friends, and that's I believe true worship would really begin.

And I remember leading out in GYC prayer room, I think I've shared this before, but I'd like to share this again.

And you don't have any choice, I'm speaking.

I remember people will ask me, Jam, why is it different when we sing in the prayer room compared to the time when we're singing in the church?

And at first I did not have the answer for that.

But then I realized, friends, that when we are in the prayer room, every thought, every heart is really set to worship God.

When we are in the prayer room, when you look, when anyone here has been to the GYC prayer time.

Okay, so a lot of the people here, and for those of you who have not been there yet, there's another GYC in 2022 in Arizona.

But I just love to see people really experience the beauty of true worship in the presence of God.

And friends, it's amazing because the last GYC, there were people who were interviewed.

When I spoke in their church, they only have like 8 members and she's the only youth.

She's the only youth And so her pastor decided to bring her to GYC and I saw her being interviewed.

And she was the 1 who gave the last testimony of her experience in the prayer room.

She said, you know what, the moment I stepped in to the prayer room, And by the way, have you been to the Houston Convention Center?

I don't know if you've been there in 2019, GYC.

This time, they opened the other ballroom, so it's 2 ballrooms.

And I'm thinking, I'm small, friends, but when I got in, I felt smaller.

So when she got in there, when she walked in, she said, wow, wonderful sound system, because the music is just wonderful.

And then she realized, oh, there's no sound system.

I only have the mic, but whenever we sing, I put down the mic.

I don't want people to just hear my voice.

I want to hear how angels sing together with God's people.

And friends, this is the thing that I realize.

1 thing that really makes a total difference is when God's people's hearts are only set to worship Him.

So I praise God that we could start our worship with that.

And I pray that every worship will be started with that.

So this morning, friends, I'd like to share something that's quite a struggle for me when I came into the prayer ministry.

And I observed as well, this is 1 of the struggles.

This is not something that's quite major as I saw it was.

I don't know about you, but the first time I came into the prayer ministry, I have a lot of prayer requests, I have a lot of confessions.

When it comes to praising God, it's just like 1 round and we're done.

And remember, praising and thanksgiving is quite different.

And thanksgiving is about what God has done for us.

Series

Prayer by Gem Castor

Give Him Praise

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Praying with Praise

34m

Prayer by Gem Castor

He is Faithful

53m

Prayer by Gem Castor

For His Glory

54m

P.R.A.Y. Like Never Before

P.R.A.Y. Like Never Before Part 2

56m

OYC 2012 Plenary Sessions

God Never Wastes Your Pain

59m

The Final Generation Must Speak this Language

33m

Encounters With Jesus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Born Blind

42m

The Wedding Crashers

35m

P.R.A.Y. Like Never Before

P.R.A.Y. Like Never Before Part 1

57m

Stories of Prayer

27m

Encounters With Jesus

Jesus’ Encounter with the 10 Lepers

36m

Hungering for More of HIM

01 Give Him Praise

37m

Sound Doctrine