PRAY - Consult With Your Creator 2

Lyons denied these increasingly when you're praying and pursuing will go towards you to do, the enemy is going to give you trouble what is good reason not to be discouraged while Turning Point for the zero more returns to the story of the Amara more examples of the power of prayer in achieving your God-given dream is David introduced the conclusion of his message hi consumption will create an interesting one who created you knows how you function the old adage, as if in doubt, read the directions if you go to your creator. He will help you accomplish the dream putting your heart he knows where that dream goes, he knows the way that it goes.

He knows where it ends up, and he wants to help you along the way, if you know in your heart that there was someone you could talk to who and keep you out of the ditch on the side of the road which are talking the person absolutely is promised to help you promise to be there with you only inspires you with the dream he stays with you throughout the reality that dream. I hope you understand that were studying this around the life of Nehemiah who came back to his homeland to build a well fixed all kinds of opposition and every time you turn around, he's being insulted, he's being berated and he's playing so I looked at the King and I talked to God. It's kind of like a momentary thing is really a choice that only through his book whenever he faced an issue. He always look to the Lord and then he did what God told him to do, and the purpose of the lattice to teach us that we can do the same thing. God is there for us. He's available to us. All we have to do is ask what let's get started with part two of play. Consult your career and let's open your Bibles to the book of my as we discussed this together. When you prepare your heart for God's plan getting ready to receive what he wants you to do prayer you praying you ask the Lord to help you. Be sensitive to what he's telling you to do a play about the plans that he gives you day and night. No matter the hour of circumstances play as God begins to give you impressions and thoughts about your future. Continue to pray, commit them to him and serious ongoing prayer as soon as since the need for rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem listen. He sat down and wept anymore, and for many days he was fasting and praying before the God of heaven as his thoughts clarified he better understood what needed to happen. He wrote out an earnest prayer is preserved for us in the book that bears his name. His I pray Lord God of heaven.

All great and awesome God, you keep your covenant and mercy with those who love you and observe your commandments.

Please be attentive and your eyes open, that you may hear the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you now. Day and night.

Nehemiah went on to confess his sins and those of his people. He reminded God of the biblical promises involving the children of Israel, and he ended by saying, Lord, I pray let you be attentive to the prayer of your servant after the prayer of your servants who desire to fear your name and let your servant prosper. This day I pray and grant him mercy in the sight of this man who was this man was King Artaxerxes the most powerful man on the earth. And even though Nehemiah was his cupbearer approached the king without risking his life. Only God could arrange the right moment so Nehemiah prayed bounds was 1/19 century pastor who wrote a powerful book on the subject of prayer read many of his books.

Every page is kind of convicting so I can only read them in small doses, but bounds called prayer, spiritual energy is what he wrote. What great things are accomplished by this divinely appointed means of grace. It lays its hand on Almighty God and moves him to do what he would not otherwise do if prayer were not offered brings things to pass which would never otherwise occurred bounds said that the story of prayer is the story of great achievements. Prayer is a wonderful power placed by Almighty God in the hands of his people, which may be used to accomplish great purposes and achieve unusual results. Bible says it this way, the earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. Prayer is the divine energy that brings the power of God into the plans that he's giving you.

I don't know any shortcut for this God guides his children as they learn the joy of praying to him night and day. So prepare your heart for God's plan and pray about your plans day and night, and then learn to practice spontaneous prayer.

Wonderful to have a leisurely hour on the patio for Bible study and prayer or to engage in a special extended time in prayer with friends at church asking God for his favors but sometimes you have to pray instantly.

Sometimes you have to pray urgently on the spur of the moment and it's good to know that the Lord hears those prayers as well.

I urge you to learn to play quickly, silently and instantly. No one in the Bible, mastered that skill. Nehemiah's book is peppered with short little prayers that were injected into his narrative. He knew how to pray spontaneously. For example, one day the king wanted a glass of wine so Nehemiah prepared and here is Nehemiah 21 to I took the line and I gave it to the king.

Now, I have never been sad in the presence of the king before and so the king said to me, why is your face sad since you are not sick. This is nothing but sorrow of heart know a little interpretation here.

Nehemiah knew these words could have reflected genuine concern or they could have been his death sentence. Believe it or not. That day it was a capital offense to be sad in the presence of the king. So watch carefully what Nehemiah did he senses the urgency of the moment versus two through five.

So I became dreadfully afraid and I said to the king.

Good move.

May the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the place of my father's terms lies waste and its gates are burned with fire, and then the king said to me, what do you request. Now watch this. So I pray to the God of heaven and I said to the king, if it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight. I asked that you send me to Judah to the city of my father's that I may rebuild it. I'm sure you noticed, here's the phrase I pray to the God of heaven and I answered the king in the twinkling of an eye.

Nehemiah had his opportunity but he had to say exactly the right thing in the right way to move the kingdom was caused, his life was on the line, not to mention the desires of his heart. It was critical for him to speak wisely and for the king to react positively so Nehemiah shut up and narrowed heaven. Maybe it was just help Lord help. Most of us know that prayer we played it on occasion, the Lord answered and soon Nehemiah was on his way to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. When you know how to earnestly pray day and night. Then you will find out there's great power in spontaneous prayer as well.

One fateful day back in 2001, Col. Dan, who was working on the first floor and the ceiling of the Pentagon. That's sort of in the middle of the building he was preparing for a 10 o'clock meeting when a coworker came into his office with news that the World Trade Center was on fire. New York went to his bosses office where the television was on watch the events unfold, then had a feeling down deep that he should get up and returned to his own office. Along the way.

He stopped to talk to someone in a nearby cubicle and suddenly the whole room burst into flames and who was thrown 20 feet forward. His left leg was pinned to the floor beneath rubble and the walls were on fire. He yelled for his coworker, but heard no response. He recalls that moment I said a short prayer asking God to show me the way out. He tried his leg loosened saw some light in the distance and crawling through an opening he found he was trapped again in the room was full of smoke and so were his lungs. He said the room was like an oven, and at that moment, I thought I was going to die of smoke inhalation declined over more rubble saw him reaching out to him and that once he was on the helicopter pad outside the Pentagon. He began helping others, not realizing he was bleeding from multiple shrapnel wounds when he shares a story now.

He credits his survival to God answering simple words, God show me a way out.

Did you know that God answers prayers like that when you're in the midst of following your dream. God is giving you a plan and you're on your way to the goal.

Sometimes there are problems that doesn't just get you there is no such thing as life without any challenges. There's the old statement that says if there's no friction there's no traction. Every major dream I have ever had everything God is ever done in my life has been fraught with trouble and often in the midst of it, you have to pray Lord help me, help me to know what to do. I don't know what to do. But my eyes are on you. So prepare your heart for God's plan through prayer. Pray about your plans day and night practice spontaneous momentary prayer in here's number four.

Prepare for God to do things his way, as God drops his seeds of aspiration in your mind and you pray with them N quiet extended prayer or quick in the moment prayer you have to learn to trust him for his own brand of success. You have to expect him to do things his way. Proverbs 16 three says commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans and commitments to trust God can be trusted with your dreams to divulge them, develop them sometimes delay them and always drench that with his blessing. So you have to understand God opens doors and closes doors. He arranges circumstances and sometimes he creates trajectories you didn't even expect in Nehemiah's case, the king granted him letters of safe conduct through the Empire along with provisions for the walls and the gates. Nehemiah said, and the king granted them to me. According to the good hand of my God upon me and Artaxerxes sent a military convoy to accompany Nehemiah to Jerusalem because the Jews had a lot of enemies in Judah. When Nehemiah got into Jerusalem. Nehemiah wanted to keep his dream a secret until it was time to rally the Jews so he saddled his horse in the darkness and inspected the ruins of the city by moonlight, and the next day he got of the people and he said you see the distress that we are in how Jerusalem lies waste and its gates are burned with fire, let us build the wall of Jerusalem that we may no longer be a reproach and I told them of the hand of my God, which had been good upon me. Nehemiah declared with confidence the God of heaven will help us. I believe with all my heart that the God of heaven will grant success to his children, who seek for his will in their lives. Remember, success doesn't mean health, wealth, fame or fortune. When God uses the term success. It means the fulfillment of his plan for your life and you have to trust him however that unfolds. If you want to move forward. Now we have to have a plan. We need to move forward toward God's plan for our life, but you also need to pray and for so much of it. It's out of your control is about true and thrust at this particular time in life. During this pandemic that many of us have experienced. There's so many things that are unprecedented. Sometimes we don't even know how to pray, we don't even know what to ask God for what you can be sure of this. If you pray and you are sincere in your heart and your walking with God. He hears your prayer and he will answer it is what James for 13 to 15 says come now, you say tomorrow or today we will go to such and such a city, or spend a year there, or buyer and seller make a profit, were as you do not know what will happen tomorrow for one is your life. It is even a vapor that appears for a long time and then vanishes away. Instead you want to say if the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that. That puts things in perspective doesn't commit to the Lord whatever you do in this attitude is the important thing of your prayer life. The Lord Jesus has a wonderful way of fulfilling your plans way beyond your expectations when you just surrender your plans to him and he is able to do according to Ephesians 320 exceedingly abundantly above all that we ever ask or think, according to the power that works in us. So prepare your heart for God's plan.

Pray about your plans day and night practice spontaneous prayer and prepare for God to do things his way and then I want at this plea for overcoming strength in overwhelming moments. Powerful forces in the province of Judah came up against Nehemiah. As soon as he showed up. The occupants of Judah hated the idea of the Jews in Jerusalem and one of the principal falls was a Samaritan warlord named Sam ballot.

Modern research has shown him to be the commander of a garrison force. He was a formidable opponent and Nehemiah forces. This one Sam ballot heard that we were rebuilding the wall. He was furious and very indignant and he mocked the Jews, and he spoke before his brethren in the Army of Samaria and said what are these people Jews doing will they fortify themselves. Will they offer sacrifices will be completed in a day will they revive the stones from the heaps of rubbish stones that are burned. That's where Nehemiah was when he went back that was the mentality of the people had.

He was the object of criticism and cruel treatment and you will have opposition like that too, if you follow through on your dream if you're praying your way through what God wants you to do. That doesn't mean you won't have any trouble. That is, anyone have any problems like Sam ballot, the devil will hurl his forces against God's unfolding work in your life. But let me tell you something friends. Don't be bullied. Don't be intimidated.

Never let yourself be discouraged. What Nehemiah did notice these two little versus that Nehemiah inserted into the story. There's a square pillow God, for we are despised turn their reproach on their own heads give them is plundered to a land of captivity will not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you, for they have provoked you in anger before the builders and a few verses later, more problems and more prayer. Nevertheless, we made our prayer to God and because of that we set a watch against them day and night and a couple chapters later, more problems and more prayer, but I prayed. Now strengthen my hands and so it goes.

You have to pray for strength in overwhelming moments.

You need God to strengthen your hands as you go forward and especially when you're facing unexpected and unwanted difficulties. So just expected. The devil will try to push you off the road, but the one to whom you pray is the one before whom the devils tremble, God will give you overcoming strength for overwhelming moments. That's what he did for Nehemiah and get this, he and the residents of Jerusalem finish the wall in 52 days they rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem in 52 days. Only God could have done that.

Believe me, you can go forward in life without drenching every step in prayer, when the greatest ships of all time was the RMS near Acadia built in 1906, it had a distinguished career captured the world record for crossing the Atlantic serve the British Navy during World War I and even today, many of the furnishings of the Mauritania are woven into the interiors of some of the world's most exclusive building hidden away in history. Is this interesting fact. The new retainer was built by prayer. The naval architect and constructed it would not put in a single piece of that great ship without definitely asking God to help him and he would not receive any part of the machinery without having the consciousness that it had to be received from divine acceptance. Thus, the greatest ship of the world has been built by making prayer and working principle of life. So let me ask you to do that make a working principle in your life, your prayer, ask God for overcoming strength in overwhelming moments go forward in his power. Remember it's not your dream.

God wants you then can I just add the spinal kind of postscript. All of this place. God for what he does.

You have one more opportunity to make prayer a part of your future. You have the privilege of praising God for his work in your life. Nehemiah and the Jews in Jerusalem finish the wall so quickly. They have time on their hands. So what's next, let's have a Bible conference with the security of a walled city. The Jewish settlers felt safe going about their lives and furthermore one section of the wall under the Watergate formed like a new public square, so the word went out from all all the people are comfortable. Watergate and S of the priesthood on a platform built for the occasion. Any praise the God of heaven and the crowd lifted their hands upward and shouted a man amen is described read from the Scripture explained the meaning of the Scripture. He gave the application of the Scripture, and at first the people were sad because they realized how far they had come away from God, but Ezra Nehemiah told him this day is holy to our Lord.

Do not be sorrowful for the joy of the Lord is your strength and the emotion of the crowd quickly changed and the people rejoiced in what God had done, and when the wall is dedicated great choirs marched along the parapets leading in worship and on that day. They offered great sacrifices and rejoiced. God had made them rejoice with great joy the women and the children rejoice in the joy of Jerusalem was heard of far off, not anything in the world like the joy of watching God form and fulfill his plans for your life and it only happens as we step toward our dreams in his presence through prayer, water the Anna Sanchez recalls a moment when God answered a huge prayer for her family matter had weighed heavily on their hearts they had earnestly prayed about it. So God answered unexpectedly in his timing with perfect wisdom. So the Anna and her family decided to celebrate, but cracked open the sparkling cider.

They made a toast raising their glasses into the air and saying thank you Lord for answering our prayers. She said I wanted my kids to understand that it wasn't just a good thing that happened it was a God thing that happened. They danced around the table, knowing things could have turned out very differently. We were beyond thankful. She said we were overjoyed it was a moment her family will never forget that salt was for the residents of Jerusalem rejoiced in their God and their joy gave them renewed strength and will be that way for you to so what's your next step. I begin this message by telling you about the inimitable Lynn Norwood. Let me end with a special prayer composed by her daughter Catherine Marshall. This prayer was inspired by her mother and was included in Marshall's book adventures in prayer. Both Catherine and Leonora are in heaven now, but I'm sure they'll be thrilled if you make there prayer your prayer.

His father once it seems so long ago now, I have such big dreams so much anticipation of the future now. No shimmering horizon beckons me. My days are lackluster. Where is your plan for my life. Father told us that without vision we perish. So father in heaven, knowing that I can ask in confidence what is your expressed world to give me.

I ask you to deposit in my mind and heart. The particular dream special vision you have for my life and along with the dream you give me whatever Grace's impatience and stamina.

It takes to see the dream through to fruition. I sense that this may involve adventures. I have not bargain for what I want to trust you, God, I want to trust you enough to follow even if you lead along new paths so Lord if you have to break down any prisons of mine before I can see the stars and catch the vision than Lord begin the process. Now enjoy this expectation. Amen. And I guess I would say to you, as they would say to you.

I dare you to pray that prayer I dare you to bring God into your life and make him the focus of what you do and who you are. I dare you to dream big dreams and then get into connection with God and see it through. He's your creator and when he gives you a dream you have to consult with your creator and he will lead you to the realization of everything God puts in your heart to do that. See you next time right here on Turning Point that Mrs. today came to from Shadow Mountain Community Church with Dr. David Jeremiah serves as senior pastor. How is Turning Point in reaching his right until his point.

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