Part 4 - Unlocking The Unseen Realm with the KEY OF PRAYER. Pastor. Shane Vaughn

* Book of Luke chapter 3. Want to say how much I appreciate my wife this week. She has been such a blessing to me. Last night before I did the TBN show, I had a hard day yesterday. I my heart was broken yesterday and for reasons that I don't understand and sometimes sometimes it gets to me and um I was I was I was out of it just didn't want to talk, didn't want to because my heart was broken. * And um we lost a very wonderful family. And anyway, and I was just like a father when he loses a child. I was just, you know, it's just sort of like what you're going through, Brother Shane, you know, that hurt, that just that detachment. And my wife, her prayers rescued me. I Thank God for a praying spouse. They can lift you up. * There's times you know, I'm not spiritual all the time. You know that, right? There's times we we're reminded that we're human. That's when you need a prayer warrior. That's when you need a prayer warrior. You need somebody to reach down and pick you up. And um Now, y'all don't ever see that side of me. * She has to deal with when I get short with her. She's like, "Okay, who's got you upset at the church? Why am I getting the blunt?" Every pastor's wife has dealt with that. When you get a good pastor's wife, you've gotten something very valuable. cuz my wife is my strength and I thank God for her. This load gets very heavy that I carry and anytime it starts getting heavy on my shoulders, here she comes marching in my office with them hands stretched out. * I know I'm fixing to get the kachukey walkie wookie. I know it's coming. I hear it and boy when she walk when them hands come out Amen. The violent take it by force. Hallelujah. Amen. Thank God. Luke chapter 3, we're going to continue tonight with prayer. I'm going to tell you I'm seeing the results of this sermon. * I said I'm seeing the results of this sermon. I'm seeing lives transformed. Sister Rael, you had a beautiful baptism tonight. So beautiful. For yay, you are a special servant unto me, saith Yahweh. You are a holy daughter unto me. Yay, I placed up on you the Nazarite vow. Yay, you are separated unto me. And the destiny I have for your life is bigger than what other girls desire and I placed that within you. * For you are mine and mine alone. And yay, if you could see where your feet will trot if you could see what I have planned for your life you would walk circumspectly before me all the days of your life. Yay, touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you and keep you right where I've called you to be. Sayeth the Lord. Hallelujah. * Thank you, Father. Verse 21. And when all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Yeshua was also baptized. Isn't that interesting? He went last. He's always a servant, isn't he? Could you imagine standing there as the Son of God, the last to get baptized? Come on now. No offense. * He's not offended that they didn't put him first. He went last. It came to pass that while he prayed, the heavens were opened. Somebody say, "While he prayed." I want you to hear me. Every time you pray, you have to believe the heavens have opened. You have to know it. Elder Hamrick, when you somebody says, "Pray for me. * " You have to believe that your voice just opened up the heavens. You have to know that way down deep. Otherwise, it's a repetitious prayer. But here's what happened when Yeshua prayed. The heavens opened. It was not the baptism that brought the dove. It was the prayer that opened up the heavens so the dove could come down. While he prayed, the heavens was opened, and then the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, "You are my beloved son, in you I am well pleased. * " I want to tell you something. If you'll learn to pray, he'll be well pleased with you as well. Amen. Notice, Sister Callie, none of his disciples ever told Yeshua, "Teach us how to preach." They never said, "Teach us how to put a sermon together. Teach us how to do these things. Teach us how to cast out devils. * " No, no, no. Because if he could teach them to pray, preaching would come natural. Casting out devils would just be accidental when you pray. And you have to believe in the power of prayer for there to be power in prayer. So, I'll repeat that since you didn't catch it. You have to believe in the power of prayer for there to be power in prayer. * You have to believe it with everything you've got. You may be seated. Father, we pray over this message tonight, and over your servant, the unprofitable servant, that you would anoint my lips tonight, O Lord, that you would anoint the ears of your precious people. And Father, now take over my vocal chords, and take over my mouth. * Move me out of the way, Father, and I ask you to let me serve as your voice to these precious people. Father, remove any hindrance in their hearing tonight. Remove any distractions in their minds and plant this seed so very deep in the name of Yeshua. Now, I believe when I prayed the heavens just opened. I believe that. And do you know you don't even have to have a lot of emotions in prayer. * Did you see just then there was no emotions? There was prayer. There's a place beyond emotions. It's called faith. There's going to be times when you don't feel like your prayer is opening up a tin can, much less heaven. You don't have to feel it. You just have to believe it. And if you'll believe it, the heavens will open for you. Amen. * While he prayed, that scripture just stuck me. While he prayed, he was endued with all the power he would ever need to be transformed from a carpenter's son to a son of Yahweh. While he prayed. I want you to hear me tonight. In this ministry, if you ever learn to pray every day, every one of you need an appointment with God. * Who's got an appointment, not with God, tomorrow? Does anybody have an appointment Monday? Anybody? What do you have? 6:00 with No, not with God. Who's got an a Huh? You're going to an eye doctor at what time Monday? Ah, you've got it in your calendar. Do you have your appointment with God in your calendar? If not, you won't keep it. * I give you my word on that. Everyone watching me needs a Google alert for prayer. Got it on your phone? You know why? Because you're human. I'm human. And look, I don't care when that clock hits it you and your wife maybe fighting right then. You don't feel like prayer. That's okay. Say, "Okay, babe, we'll pick this up in a minute. * Father, we See? Hallelujah. Just pray. And you ain't got to feel no goosebumps. You ain't got to feel no power. Because feelings is your problem anyway. That's your problem. When you don't feel anything, but you see, if you could feel prayer every time you prayed, then it would require no faith. You've got to believe it. * You've got to believe it. God has never had a son who could live without prayer. Never. God's first son was Israel. Taught him to pray. God has never had a son, nor will he ever have a son that does not live on the hidden manna of prayer. That's where your strength comes from. The reason Here's what I love about prayer. Yeshua is such a prayer warrior that he's still praying. * Sister Lori, whenever he died, his prayer life did not end. Why would he need to pray, pastor, after his resurrection? Because you didn't know what prayer was. You thought prayer was begging. You thought prayer was pleading. He understand that prayer was positioning himself at the right hand of God. Every one of you can stand at the God's got a big right hand. * You heard me? Every one of you can stand at the right hand of God, but the only way you can get there is in prayer. Prayer positions you as a friend of God. The risen glorified Jesus Yeshua is now the great high priest. I want to talk to you tonight about this high priest of the Melchizedekian order. And thereafter, now listen to what the Bible said he's doing after he's already in heaven, he is literally praying for all men. * That's what he does today. Here's why he's still praying, and this is what we've got to comprehend. When the rap and not the rapture, the resurrection takes place, boy that Babylon still in there somewhere. Isn't that some Babylon? Boy, it gets down in you. But when the resur- When the resurrection takes place, prayer don't stop in the millennium. * Because prayer is simply relationship. Only if your relationship with God's going to end, will prayer ever end. It's the sign of your relationship with God. So, if you have a relationship with everything else in your life, but not with prayer, you don't have a relationship with God. And I'm going to tell you how I can know if someone is praying. * Because I promise you when you're praying you're not fighting your own battles. When you're praying, you you you can't talk about nobody cuz you know you've got an appointment with God tomorrow at 6:00 in the morning and you going to have to confess it. How many of you, I'd like to see a show of hands if I may, since I've been teaching this how many of you have started confessing in your prayer time? Thank you. * Did it work? When you ask the Father if there's anything that I have done and you shut up, did it work? Amen. Now he says after he talks to you, get up from the altar now. And go to your brother. If you know sister Callie, every day you have an appointment with Diddy. You're going to get tired of confessing the same thing. * And you're going to eventually allow that prayer appointment to become your safeguard during the day when you're dealing with people. Prayer must be based on truth and not your emotions. Now the first thing that Yeshua taught them about prayer. Now we're going to enter it's taking me four weeks to teach you the why of prayer. * But now we're going to begin entering into the Lord's Prayer itself, the actual prayer model. Yeshua said when you pray pray Our Father. And that's what I want to teach on tonight is Our Father. I'll never forget my wife said something last night that was so powerful and yet so simple. And she walked off and I said, "Hey, come back here. * You just said something that was beyond blonde." No, it was good. I mean, it was like deep deep deep deep. I mean, like deep deep deep. And yet so simple. We didn't know what the grandbaby's name was was. And she kept saying, "Well, I don't even feel connected to it if I don't know its name." And I said, "Come back here. What you just say? You said we were just calling it baby Vaughn. * " Because we didn't know the name. But she said, "I don't really feel She said, 'The other grandbabies I before they were born, I knew their name. I was already getting connected to them through the name.'" And I was totally shocked, Sister Callie, 10 years ago when I realized that the Christian church had removed our father's name from his own Bible. * We were a fatherless church. If you write a book, Sister Denisa, and I take your name out of it, and I replace Denisa with sister, I'm sorry. Is that allowed? Is that allowed? It's actually a crime. And yet the whole Christian church never thought twice when they looked in their Bible and saw the word Lord, l o r d. * None of the original apostles read Lord in their Bible. They read our father's name. They knew the name Yah, Yahweh. They knew that name. And the reason the Christian church is in a position of of of of of being out of relationship is because they're in a relationship with a god instead of a father. A god is Thor. * A god is some thing out there that doesn't care about mankind. They're just gods. But you see, if you've got a father, now you're moving to a total different relationship on a daily basis with our father. The next question is, what is your father's name? If you don't know that, here's what happens. When I go to prayer, if I say, "Oh god, I come to you. Oh god, I come." That's one thing. * But when I say, "Father Yahweh." "Almighty Yah." All of a sudden I've just moved past god and I've moved into a personal relationship. And brothers and sisters, the whole Christian church screams, "Do you have a personal relationship?" They're like, "Yes." And then I say, "Well, what's his na- Well, I don't know. God, Lord. * " Brothers and sisters, the first way to enter into prayer is to learn the name of your father. And do not enter into prayer to a god because Satan is a god. Amen? But becoming intimate in prayer time with your father in heaven. That's the first thing Yeshua taught them was who they were praying to. Yeshua said, "Pray to your father in heaven. * " Because when you know where to pray and why you're praying, you're already on a good start to pray in effectively. The first thing Yeshua taught them was their total helplessness. Our father. The first thing he taught them was our utter need for a helper, for a relationship with our father, whereby we cry, "Abba father. * " In prayer, you learn how to be the weaker vessel. You become a wife instead of a prostitute. You literally sub- prayer is the ultimate submission. It's where you learn to be the bride of Christ in prayer. It's where you become helpless, hopeless because you need a father. The world doesn't need a father. The church does. * Amen. The son of God is entering into a relationship with your father and not one time in that relationship can you not be the weaker vessel? Not one time. Every son must realize how weak they are. Sonship, when you come into the sonship calling, not saved, but sonship. When you come into that level of your experience with God, then it will demand a relationship with your father. It'll demand it. * You will not be able to live without it if you're a true son of God. Let's go to the book of Romans chapter 8. I want to show you what the scripture says. Romans chapter 8 verse 15. Now, this is interesting. Let's start at verse 14. For as many as are led by the spirit of Yahweh, they are the sons of Yahweh. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage, but you received the spirit of sonship. * By which you are now able Now, see See, let me Let me explain it like this. You received the spirit of sonship. You didn't desire it. You didn't ask for it. You received the spirit of sonship, and because you received that spirit, that spirit is what caused you to cry, "Abba, Father." Before he found you and arrested you, you had not the ability to cry Abba Father. You had no father. * But you have received a spirit of sonship. Somebody say spirit of sonship. You receive that. You didn't ask for it. Did you hear me? You received that spirit. Now, that spirit, when it gets in your mind, the first thing it's going to teach you is you need a father. Hallelujah. And that comes from the spirit of adoption, huiothesia, or the spirit of sonship. * Yahweh, listen. Romans 8:15, read that verse again. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage, but you received the spirit by which you cry Abba Father. Listen to what he's saying right there. It's very plain. He's saying, "What I'm doing in you is breaking you when I send sonship." Now, as a Christian, this don't apply to you. * But when I send you the spirit of sonship, the first thing I'll teach you is you need a father. The first thing I'll say to you is, "Luke, I am your father." I will reveal the father and son relationship. You see, until you get the spirit of sonship, you are in the master-slave relationship. Come on now. You're in the GOD AND THE SUBJECT RELATIONSHIP. * But when the spirit of sonship comes into your mind, immediately you want to know your father. You want to know his ways. You want to know his name. You want to know everything about him. What pleases him. Woo! Whereby you the notice that word whereby. Here's what he's saying. If I had not sent you that spirit, whereby In other words, without that calling, you don't have the whereby or the wherewithal to cry Abba Father. * Now you That's right. Now you can say Father God, but you won't know Father Yahweh. That comes by revelation. That's sent to you. Listen to me, those around this nation that God has used my voice to introduce you to his name, you ought to thank God for the day you heard this voice because he revealed his name to you. * He revealed He or your father was revealed to you through this ministry. Somebody say whereby. It's because of that divine calling, you're now being forced into an Abba Father relationship. And prayer is the vehicle that builds that relationship that the Father started. Those of you that received the Holy Spirit tonight, let me explain something to you. * That's not the spirit of sonship. Oh, no, no. Mhm. No, no, no. What Let me tell you what that is. That's a seed that was dropped into your spirit mind. That's not a relationship. Mhm. Mhm. No, no, no, no, no. But now that you have the seed within you, now you have the potential for sonship. How will that potentiality come forth? Through a life of prayer. * You will never build that relationship. I used to watch my grandmother pray up until she died. And I would watch her in the prayer room. And I would hear her just in that relationship with her father. And I will not lie to you as a logical mind that I have, Brother Shane, I didn't get it. I mean, really? Why are you telling God about your lost children? You've told him a million times. * Why are you sitting there crying? I mean, this was just my logical thoughts. Of course, I would never admit to them. But I'm thinking, Nana, you said Uncle Bo's name. I'm 50 years old. I've heard his name in prayer a billion times. Why? What are you But you see, what I didn't understand then that I'm coming to understand now is she was building a relationship with her father in the weakness of prayer. * In the of prayer, you are building a weak and strong connection. It is in prayer, Elder Connelly, where you become weak. And yet, it's where you become your strongest. Our Father, he said, "When you pray, pray knowing your father and the fact that you need a father and the fact that you are helpless without. * " You take that baby that was born today, little Graylen. He's helpless without his father. He needs his father to provide everything that he needs right now. He's helpless without an our father, without an Abba father, he's helpless. Until you find the place, Sister Chelsea, where you are literally, totally dependent upon your father, you're not in a sonship relationship. * If you've got it figured out, he'll let you figure it out. I know some of you is bored, but I'm trying to teach you how to pray. You got to build it on that relationship of total trust. So, when my grandmother would go back and again and pray for Uncle Bo, who's been a drunk all his life, that man has Y'all, that man literally Mhm, he's a legend in our family. * Mhm, Uncle Bo. That man beat up all the policemen handcuffed. He was just Everybody in Marion County, Mississippi, the police department, they look, Uncle Bo. Nanna's always bringing Uncle Bow, and in my mind, even God couldn't save Uncle Bow. Right? So, I'm like, well, God hadn't done it yet, so why are you bringing him back again? And I heard the Lord speak to me and say, "Son, she's telling me every time she asked me again that she still trusts me. * " She still trusts me. She still The prayer life is the trust life. It is the place where you prove God, and he proves you. But every time Nonna would call UNCLE BOW, HERE'S WHAT SHE WAS SAYING, "I know you didn't do it last time, Lord. Oh, but I want you to know that there's such a brokenness in me and a helplessness in me that I trust that if you didn't hear me last time, you're going to hear me this time. * And if you don't hear me this time, I trust you're going to hear me next time. Prayer is a trusting relationship WITH YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN." Many people wonder they wonder why why don't Pastor Von why don't he just address his enemies and go through all their accusations and clear them all up? Because I want to tell you why. * They don't want anything cleared up. Because if you clear it up, it's going to be something else, and then they're going to say, "Well, you lied about that." So, you never win in that situation. Ever. I just need a father. I just need a father in heaven that knows See, here's the deal. If I trust that my father knows my heart, I couldn't care less what you think. * Cuz I know the truth. I know the truth and my father knows the truth. And as long as me and my father know the truth, then what you think doesn't matter. Let me tell you something, children. When people say they want you to come clean, that's not what they want. They want control over you. It'll be a cold day in a place called hell before I ever answer to my enemies. * Ever. Ever. Ever, ever, ever. Why? Oh, I don't We don't roll that way around here. We don't roll that way around here. I don't answer to lies. You hear me? Why? I trust that my father, when this battle is over, that there'll be a victory. I trust that because of prayer. I take it to the Lord in prayer. And when you're praying, you're staying. * My grandmother had a saying that I love. She said, "I've never met one person that backslid in a prayer room." You look at those that have left us and it's hurt our hearts. You never saw them in a prayer. You never saw them in a prayer meeting. Never saw Why? Listen, I want you to hear me. * If you are not in constant prayer, you'll hear the voice of the enemy. You will never backslide in a prayer room. Praying, you can't backslide from there. Why? You're protected in prayer. And why is that the hardest thing for us to do. Because if you ever meet your father in heaven and learn to trust him, no weapon formed will ever prosper. * You've got to learn who your father is. You've got to learn to trust him. He's got a track record. Go with me to the book of Galatians chapter 4. The greatest thing you'll ever develop in your life is trusting in your father. Galatians 4:6 And because you are sons, Yahweh sent forth the spirit of his son into our minds. * AND BECAUSE OF THAT SPIRIT, we cry Abba Father. Help, Father. Why do we cry that, Elder Connelly? Because he sent us the ability to do it. That's a gift to trust in the Lord. You understand? Yahweh sends you that gift. You wonder why the world don't have it? Didn't send it to them. If you're able to give in that relationship with him, it's because he invited you into that relationship. * Do you know the first word that is taught to a Hebrew child? Abba. Just like our little children, dad, dad, mama. The first word taught to a Hebrew child is Abba. Hand me my board real quick. It's the first word taught to a child, and I want you to hear me. If you've truly received the spirit of Yahweh, it's the first word he'll teach you. * He'll teach you Father. Now, I was thinking about this word today when something hit me that I've never seen before. If Abba is your father, if Abba, your father, if that if that's the word for your father, the next thing you want to do is build a relationship with that Abba. Well, I found it so interesting. I found that so interesting. * To build that relationship with Abba, you might want to keep Sabbath because it's in keeping Sabbath you're connecting to Abba. Oh, help me, Holy Ghost, now. Abba's in the Sabbath, THE SABBATH. Why do you think that the FIRST THING THAT YAHWEH TAUGHT ADAM and Eve was the Sabbath? So, they could develop their relationship with their Abba. * Because sons obey. And what is the test commandment of obedience? Keep the Sabbath. BECAUSE IN keeping the Sabbath, you are learning Abba. That's why he's Lord of the Sabbath, because that is the very relationship and the sign that you're getting to know your father, your Abba. Because tonight, the whole world, all of Hancock County, could flip and care less about Abba. * Now, Sunday, yes, they go to church. They care about God. Not father. THEY ALL GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY TO MAKE GOD HAPPY. CUZ THEY'RE scared of God. They do not want to go. But when you come into Abba, you keep Sabbath because you're beginning to want to please your father in heaven. And if he said, "The seventh day is mine," you're like, "It's mine, too. * " The father is so intricately connected to the Sabbath, that his very word that every Hebrew child has to learn is in the word Sabbath. It might mean that when you come to know him, you're going to keep the Sabbath as well, because in so doing, you are coming into I really I want to make something clear, Brother Larry. * I want everybody to hear what I'm saying in the whole wide world. We have never taught and we never will that keeping Sabbath will save you or get you to heaven which we that's beside the point. We've never taught you've got to do this to or you know that it if you don't you're going to hell. We've never taught that. We don't believe that at all. * We just believe that when you do get saved if you're lucky enough for him to send the spirit of sonship into your mind that the first thing he's going to teach you is the word Abba. And all of a sudden you're going to begin to see your father the things he loves and all of us but you see why could you not know your father? I'll explain why. * I mean if you've served the Lord all your life never knew your father. I'm going to tell you why. Because you won't find him in the New Testament. You won't find him in the Christian church. Why? Because they believe that that God of the Old Testament is mean cruel and evil. That Jesus had to come TO STOP GOD. Oh yes, THEY BELIEVE THAT GOD WAS SO bad that he literally sent his son to stop him from being bad. * Y'all y'all hear me? That's what Christians believe about the God of the Old Testament. I'll give you an example. On my show last night when I'm talking about the land of Israel do y'all know when Yahweh told Israel back in the Old Testament, "I'm giving you that land?" Do you not think that Yahweh didn't know that there was innocent little people living on that land already? He told Moses, "I'm giving you all that land. * " WHAT HE FORGOT to tell Moses is that land already belonged to somebody. You see, Yahweh don't need nobody's permission to be Yahweh. He see, he is in control. If he says, "Y'all moving over there and these people's moving in," that's exactly what we're going to do. People cannot comprehend their father in heaven because they think he's unfair. * The greatest thing the Christian church or the greatest lie they've ever taught you is that I mean, hey, if you don't believe me, let's get on Facebook and just say something and here's what they'll tell you. Oh, but that was in the Old Testament. We don't serve that God anymore. We got us a gooder God. Yeah. We got one that, you know, none of that he would never displace those Palestinians, Pastor. Ever. * Well, your Jesus wouldn't, but my God would. You see, this new creation of Jesus who the Roman Catholic Church turned him into, the opposite of the God of the Bible, that's not that it people cannot comprehend a sovereign God. Because they want everything to be fair. I'm going to give you the best advice anybody ever gave you in your life. * You ready? Life ain't fair. All these people want everything to be fair. Life ain't fair. And sometimes God ain't fair. Because in your mind it's not fair. It's just like when Yahweh told Samuel No, um Samuel told uh King Saul go and kill every child. Ooh, hot. What? Kill the animals. Kill the little dogs. See your problem right now? You're not in a our father relationship. * When you get into an our father relationship, you're like, all right with me if that's how you want to do it. You're not trying to figure him out. You're submitted. Saul didn't have an our father relationship. He thought that was unfair. So, who did he keep? King Agag. Remember? He kept a few sheep. And he brought back the king. * Why did he bring back the king? It made sense. As a trophy to encourage Israel. We got the king. But is that what Yahweh told him to do? No. Now, it sounded so unfair that God would tell Moses I I'm sorry, Saul to go kill children. That's that's like beyond our ability to comprehend. But here's What did you just say, Elder? I said, but children grow up into be men. * Now, let me show you why it was fair. Okay? Fast forward. Book of Esther. Haman was an Agagite. He was one of the descendants of Agag that Saul left alive. Agag found him a wife after that. They started having children and now Esther and God all of God's people are you're better listen now are about to be wiped off the earth from these babies that grew up to be men. * Amen. Amen. If they would have obeyed Yahweh, there would never have been a book of Esther. That close to destroying every Jew on planet earth, that close. Because of an unfair God. But when you're in an an our father relationship, it there's not for you to figure out. He sees the end from the beginning. And when you come into an our father relationship, Sister Batch, you trust that. * You trust that. And that's where everyone in this ministry must begin to move to. I let let me I'm going to Can I give you an example? Can I show you how many of you are not there? Can I just come to your house for a minute? Dig around your flower bed real quick. When someone leaves this ministry and you're trying to figure out what happened, God happened. * Do you understand that? Well, I wish I wished I knew that's your problem. You don't need to know nothing. You people out there that's digging, it's because you're not trusting. You ain't GOT TO DIG WHEN YOU TRUSTING the Lord. Well, I'm going to find out what happened. Well, go ahead. And you when you get done, YOU STILL AIN'T FOUND OUT NOTHING. * But some people do not have this our father. If you're in this ministry, when you get that our father relationship and your father has chosen a man, then you trust our father. It's that simple. You trust that he can raise him up and bring him down. You have to move into that relationship. I'm going to give you a prime example. * I might as well since we're here. I don't went down to the valley. Here we are. So, we got diggers. They go to the courthouse and dig up whose name the land is in out there in Gulfport. Instead of trusting that the pastor's the pastor and he's got this under control. They go to digging. And so, they think they find something. * It's in my name. So, they found something. But here's what they didn't find. They didn't find the intention of my heart. They didn't know that I knew that if I died today, the donors of that money would have no ability to get their money back. I knew that if that was in the ministry name, there would be no way if I died today that they could get their money they couldn't claim it on my life insurance, they couldn't claim it on any of my assets. * I did that to protect innocent people. And if you knew me, you would know that. Where's the trust? If you knew it, if you knew me, you would KNOW THAT. BUT I WANT to tell a bunch of dummies something. Now, I'm just going to be as real as I can right now. Even when I transfer it to the ministry name, once it's paid off, who you think owns the ministry? Bunch of dummies. * Who owns FIRST HARVEST MINISTRIES? YAHWEH THROUGH HIS PROXY. SO, what if you had went found it in the ministry name? Baby, I didn't have to tell you that. It Who you think owns the trust? My point is you ain't When you find something, you ain't found nothing. Cuz you don't know the whole story. And it's that way with your God. * When you want to know why he's doing it a certain way instead of trusting that he's got your best interest at heart, you have to trust that. Do you not think I could have saved myself some trouble? I knew there'd be diggers out there. You don't think I couldn't have put it in the ministry name to begin with and never have to deal with that? I would have still owned it and you would have been satisfied cuz you're that dumb. * But I'm trying to protect people's finances so that they have recourse. Cuz First Harvest Ministries, you ain't going to sue them. They ain't got nothing. When you know and I said all that to make this point, when you know your father's heart. Every accusation in the world against your father in heaven will fall flat when you know his heart towards you. * When you know the heart of someone, you could bring me a video tonight showing me my wife having an affair on me. You could bring me and put it in my face and I would rebuke the devil out of your hand. I know her. The Bible said, "Know them that labor among you. Know them." Know them. Know them in the good and the bad. * Why? Because we are all entering into a relationship of trust with our God and with one another. And when we learn to trust in him in all of his ways. Who do these people think First Harvest Ministries is? Who do they think it Who Who created Who Who do they think Where is this great You're looking at him. My name is First Harvest Ministry, right here. * I'm the entity that created There was no I created it in a jail cell. If that that total ever all came from right here. Deal with it. Amen. That's just the way it's going to be, children. Don't think I'm going to work all my life and let some dummy come take it away. I've watched pastors WORK THEIR WHOLE LIFE FOR ungrateful people and lose everything cuz they didn't do it right. * You got to protect it. You have to protect the work of God from those people that That's why they ain't never be going ain't never GOING TO BE NO VOTING around here. You didn't build it. That's the stupidest thing in the world. Let a contractor build a building and let a bunch of people that didn't do nothing vote on what we're going to do with the building. * It was me and that lady right there that stood here and preached to nobody. And if you think you're going to be a Johnny-come-lately and tell us how we're going to do things, you come to the wrong church. Go back Go back over yonder. Hallelujah. We cry Abba Father when we trust him. What is the purpose? Yes, ma'am. * Oh, good. Thank you. Whenever we learn to trust God, the purpose of the relationship is created further in prayer. Let's go to Mark chapter 14 verse 36. Mark 14:36. Here's Yeshua praying. Verse 35, he went forward a little and fell on the ground and prayed that if it were possible the cup would pass from him. He said, "Abba Father, all things are possible for you. * " What's the first thing Yeshua had to learn? Abba Father. I want you to hear me tonight. If you ever plan to rule and reign with him, you're going to have to learn that you're a child. You're going to have to move into that. Now, I want to explain to you why God chose prayer now and what he's doing with your prayer life. * What he's doing with your prayer life is creating something called the royal priesthood. Okay? The royal priesthood is being selected and trained in God's school of sonship to restore all creation back to God. Let's go to Revelation chapter 5 9 and 10. Now, many How many of you would be honest with me right now? Just totally honest. * No errors. And say, "Pastor, I have no idea what priesthood means." Anybody here that you just don't know what the real meaning of what priesthood okay, well only one of you. All right. All right, well if that's the case, you're not going to learn nothing now. How about I didn't even know what priesthood was as a as a college educated theologian? I knew what the Roman Catholic Church called priests, but I didn't understand what priesthood was. * Prayer is creating the priesthood. Okay? Revelation 5:9-10. And they sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the scroll and open the seals. For you were slain and you've redeemed us to Yahweh by your blood out of every tribe and language, people, and nation. And have made us, you've turned us into something that we were not. * You have made us kings and priests unto our father. And we will reign in heaven. We will reign on the earth. Ladies and gentlemen, that passage of scripture is filled with precious diamonds that you've never ever discovered. You're going to discover them tonight. I want you to highlight those two, three, or four words, has made us kings and priests. * Who are these? The 144,000. Who are these? First harvest. Firstfruits. We're getting ready to celebrate these people. These are people that were redeemed from among men and have been made into something that they were not. Pac-Man Have you all not seen the logo? That's what the whole logo is showing. It starts off with a broken man on his knees with an Our Father, and at the top he's wearing a crown. * WHY? YOU HAVE MADE US what we were not when you found us. God is not saving you to keep you out of hell. God is saving you to make you a candidate for the priesthood. Anybody with me? Okay. I'mma stay on this little passageway here. YOU HAVE MADE US TO BE kings and priests because when you found us, we were men. brute beast We was sons of Adam. * But by thy great power you have made us what we are today. Hallelujah. What do priests do? Um, thank you for asking. Priest offers up prayers. That's all priests do is pray. Anybody hear me? What does priests do? They always praying. Now, in the Old Testament, they brought sacrifices. Well, what do you think prayer is? Come on now. * It is THE TOOL OF PRAYER THAT'S CONVERTING YOU INTO PRIEST. Priest offers prayers. So, here's what I want you to ask yourself tonight. Am I being made a priest of God? It's the process of transformation into the priestly nature taking place in my life. I'll show you what that looks like. I pray Sister Jill Sideock will one day get this. * I want to put on every t-shirt we've got. This is the process. See in that Pack Men logo? You see that man right there? That's a man that just told Joshua, "Teach me to pray." He said, "All right, let's start off with Our Father. Get on your knees. Our Father." Come on. You realize you need a father, son. Realize you're not a bastard anymore. * You're being made a son of God. You need a father. YOU DON'T NEED A GOD. You don't need a king. You need a father. Everybody else that's in Christianity WILL CALL HIM GOD, AND THEY WILL CALL HIM KING, BUT I'M GOING TO TEACH YOU YAHWEH FATHER YAHWEH. YOU'RE GOING TO BREAK down into a relationship. And as you do, you're going to start a journey. * And only priest are allowed in here. Come on now. Only the priest can enter into these holy places. Listen to me, and listen well. This man down here, oh, God didn't save him to keep him out of hell. God saved him because in the millennial reign, there must still we need more than Yeshua praying for all men. * He's got to teach us how to pray for all men as priests unto God. You got to understand why you're praying. Brother Von, it's so hard for me to pray. I know it is. You know why? Cuz you was praying for Ronnie and Johnny. You can move that so they can see me. You was praying FOR RONNIE AND JOHNNY. SO, EVENTUALLY YOU RUN OUT OF THINGS TO pray for. * But when you're praying for all men, you've become a priest unto your God. Why is it? Because the priest serves two purposes. He puts one hand up to God and another to mankind. The cross. HE IS THE GO-BETWEEN BETWEEN A LOST WORLD AND A REDEEMED WORLD. UNTIL GOD GETS IT ALL BACK, HE WILL HAVE a priesthood. Pastor, I want to be a priest. * All right, we're going to find out. Hebrews chapter 5. Hebrews chapter 5 and we're going to find out who who wants to be a priest. I got a feeling very few. Hebrews 5:1 through 2, "For every high priest selected from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to Yahweh in order that he may offer sacrifices. Who can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray? Did you Oh God, I'm going to preach this now. * Since he himself is also the subject of weakness. What did we just read here? The three intrinsic What does intrinsic mean? Internally? The three intrinsic natures of one of God's priests. Do you know what they are? I'll teach you. They're in that scripture you just read. These are the three intrinsic natures of a priest and it's only developed in a prayer life. * The first one he is taken from among Come on now, what did you just say? The first nature of a priest is he is taken from among men. You cannot be a priest to who you've been a friend to. That's why we have no friends. Do you understand? He took you from among friends. He took you from among men. WHY? BECAUSE IF YOU'RE FRIENDS with men, you can't tell men the truth. * But how does he take you from among men? Pastor, what is the process? So glad you asked. I'll show you. When you become a prayer warrior, you'll have no friends left. He takes you from among men when he places you in prayer. When he calls you to prayer, all of a sudden if you don't believe what I'm telling you, let some of your friends call some of your friends up say, "Hey. * " Now, not in here cuz they would jump to it. Let's pray. Let's go have A LITTLE PRAYER MEETING. WELL, I GOT TO go to here and I got it. Okay, I see. That's how he separates you from among men. Prayer is teaching you the priestly role. But notice the second thing here. He is not a private individual anymore. No. He is now a public official. * What is he, elder? He is ordained for men. Didn't Paul say above all, "Pray for all men?" Is anybody picking it up? He took you away from men so that you could save all men through your prayers. Sounds like Yeshua. And I think he is my pattern. Yes. Third, the priest is never empty-handed. He always brings things pertaining That's right, and the sacrifice of prayer. * Yeshua had all three of these intrinsic natures. Internally. I do feel sorry for some of you the way I teach. Some of you got to be bored to death. But I want you to understand who you are. Until these three things come in your life. Brother Branham, how do I develop those three things? Prayer. Prayer. When you begin to realize that you are ordained for men, that you're now a public official, you're no longer a private individual. * What do you think a preacher of the church is? He's a public official. He is no longer his own. He serves the people. Every prayer warrior is a public official because if it wasn't for you, there would be no public left. It is the salt of the earth that has preserved the whole earth. It's the priesthood. If there's not a priesthood, Yahweh would destroy it all. * NOAH WAS A PRIEST unto the people. You have been called to a life of prayer to develop the priesthood. Now, read the next thing. Read that next verse for me. I want to show you something. Now, this is not an intrinsic nature, but this is something that a priest must experience. Read that for me. Hold on. The purpose of prayer for all men is so that you can have compassion. * Read. What are you praying for? Every ignorant person. Come on now. You're not kneeling that you're not judging them for being ignorant. You're moved with compassion because they are ignorant. You're not judging them because they don't keep the Sabbath. You're praying for them because they're so ignorant they don't know to. * See? You are first moved with compassion. Prayer you are not there in prayer to remind God of what your enemies have done to you. You are there to pray for their ignorance. I don't have any enemies. I have ignorant friends. For those that didn't hear me, I said I have no enemies, just ignorant friends. They think they're my enemy. * They don't know God allowed them to be. Brothers and sisters, what you don't understand, there's not one enemy I have that can ever get in my heart. Because of prayer. In the last two three weeks we've had three people come back home over the national church because I kept praying for their ignorance. Satan is good at what he does to people. * Folks, people will believe a lie on you when they know it's a lie. Because of ignorance. I told you my grandmother's favorite line, "Honey, they probably believe that. Somebody's convinced them of that." So, the reason I CANNOT GO RESPOND ON FACEBOOK, I'm too busy praying for them in my role as their priest. Oh, there's a logical side of me, Elder Connelly. * There's a logical side of me that could embarrass every one of them in 3 seconds flat. Shane Vaughn Shane Vaughn's got a logical mind, and I never do anything that I don't think ahead about. And that man wants to make Well, when your enemies are making a fool out of themselves, just leave them alone. Okay? But when you become a priest you look at their deception and you can't get angry because you realize you go back and see your job description as a priest is what, Elder Morgan? What is the job description read it? As a priest, my job description is * what? To have compassion on the ignorant. And them that are going astray. When you become like that, children you will become like Yeshua. When they was crucifying him and he said, "Father, forgive the ignorant. They don't know what they're doing." He was a high priest. I SAID HE WAS A PRIEST FOR ALL MEN. * HE KNEW THAT SATAN WAS GOOD AT DECEIVING PEOPLE. I don't HAVE TIME TO RESPOND BECAUSE I'M PRAYING FOR THE IGNORANT. HE MUST be moved with compassion. Read the next verse. Okay now, brother Von, I want to be A PRIEST. ALL RIGHT, NOW WE'RE GETTING INTO THE GOOD STUFF. If you're going to be a priest and you're going to have compassion, how do I get compassion? I'll tell you how. * You will be compassed about. Hold on now. You want to be a priest? I want compassion. All right, here's how you develop compassion. Because everything, what you just say? You experience it. God's going to send everything to you that you're praying for them for. He said, "You must be moved with compassion and you also read it slowly. * Let me preach it word for word. You're going to have compassion on the ignorant. Read. And them that are going astray. Read. All the priest must also be compassed with sin. Infirmity. The priest, before where can cleanse the lepers, must first have leprosy. I'm digging deep in that garden tonight. HE SAID THE HIGH PRIEST and all the priests, they can be moved with compassion. * Here's why, they've had the same infirmity. They believed lies before themselves. They've experienced Satan's lies. They fell for them. Now, THEY CAN HAVE COMPASSION ON WHAT COMPASSED THEM BECAUSE I GAVE THEM THAT TRIAL TO TURN THEM INTO A PRIEST. WOO! The priest must not be exempt from sin. THE PRIEST CANNOT BE EXEMPT FROM BEING COMPASSED ABOUT BECAUSE it's what you're compassed WITH THAT GIVES YOU COMPASSION. * WHY DID God allow you to be molested as a little girl? So, when you saw that lesbian, you would know that that could have been you if God wouldn't have saved you from that spirit and you will have compassion on the lesbian. You will BE ABLE TO PRAY FOR HER IGNORANCE, FOR HER DECEPTION. Every time I see a homosexual, I'm reminded of how many times I was molested as a little boy. * And all of a sudden I don't hate I don't hate homosexuals, you understand? Because I've BEEN COMPASSED ABOUT BY THAT SPIRIT. BUT BECAUSE OF A PRAYING GRANDMOTHER, I DIDN'T HAVE TO FALL INTO THAT TRAP. AND NOW I HAVE COMPASSION ON WHAT compassed me. When I think over my life, why my stepmother was so cruel, why I didn't HAVE A MOTHER, WHY I'VE COME TO understand he was training me for the priesthood so I COULD HAVE COMPASSION ON EVERYONE OUT THERE THAT'S BEEN THROUGH THAT PAIN AND THAT HEARTACHE. * If you're going TO BE A PRIEST, YOU'VE GOT TO BE COMPASSED. THERE'S A REASON YOU lived strung out on drugs, Elder Morgan and Elder Connelly. IT WAS SO WHEN YOU SAW A MAN IN THE SAME CONDITION, YOU WOULD PRAY FOR HIM MOVED WITH COMPASSION. A priest a priest must know and experientially understand who he's praying for. Whenever God allowed you to fall into sin, when he sent and he allowed you to fall into temptation, oh, here's why he allowed it. * Because one day you would need to pray for someone that had fallen in that same sin AND YOU WOULD HAVE COMPASSION BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN COMPASSED WITH THE SAME THING. AIN'T NOBODY HOLY IN THIS CHURCH, JUST REDEEMED. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? WE CAN PRAY FOR YOU BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN THERE. WE CAN HAVE MERCY ON YOU BECAUSE WE NEEDED MERCY. * I'M going to hurry. On three different occasions, the Bible said Yeshua was moved with compassion. A true priest of God will always be moved. Not with judgment and condemnation, but compassion. Hallelujah. It was not I want to explain something to you. Yeshua came up on a funeral. There was a widow. Her boy was dead. * Now, in those days, they didn't have social security. If a widow lost a son, she lost everything. Because that boy would take care of mama. Yeshua went and raised that boy from the dead. But I want you to hear me what I'm about to tell you. He did not raise that boy from the dead to show his power, but his compassion. * The reason some of you can't operate in the gifts of the spirit, you're trying to display power rather than compassion. It must all come from compassion. Everything you do for God must COME FROM THE BOWELS OF COMPASSION ON FALLEN IGNORANT MANKIND. YOU ARE A PRIEST UNTO GOD. Priesthood demands suffering, trial, testing, tribulation, and pressure. * Now, God intends that all of us who have been called to sonship should then become priest. Now, I want to say something. Listen carefully. You can be a son of God and still not be a priest of God. Let's read Revelation. Watch this carefully now. I'm about to close. Revelation 20:4-6. I'm teaching you our father tonight. * Revelation Your job is to go before your father as a priest for these broken people. That's your job. It's not to sit there and preach them all into hell. They know where they They They They already living in hell. You can do more in a prayer room for a lost man than you can behind the pulpit. I hope you heard what I just said. * You can do more in a prayer closet for a sinner than you can in a pulpit. Hallelujah. Revelation 20: 4-6. And I saw thrones, and they sat up on them, judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who beheaded for the witness of Yeshua, the word of Yahweh, who had not worshipped the beast nor his likeness nor received the mark in their forehead nor upon their hands. * And they lived and reigned with Messiah a thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again till the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. On such the second death has no power. They will be priests of Yahweh and of the Messiah and will reign with him a thousand years. * Now, I want you to notice it does not say that the sons would be reigning. Only those that had a prayer life that turned them into priests. Do you know why the prayer closet is so important, Sister Denisa? Do you know why it's so important? I'll tell you why. Your entire ministry, Yeshua still praying. * Your entire ministry will be to pray for ignorant men. During the millennial reign, you'll be praying still for all men as they come to Yeshua. You'll be praying the blinders off of their eyes. You'll be praying for them. If you can't do it now, you can't do it then. That's why he said, "Pray in all things. Above all, PRAY ABOVE ALL." ABOVE ALL, PRAY ABOVE ALL. * PRAY FOR ALL MEN. WHY? CUZ I'M WATCHING YOU. YOU COME IN THIS prayer closet saying, "Oh God, would you get Jack for what he did TO ME? AND WHAT ABOUT JILL? SHE DON'T KNOW THAT I'M THE APPLE OF YOUR EYE. YOU KNOW SHE SHE DON'T KNOW THAT NO WEAPON SHE'S formed come pride. You need to get out there God AND YOU NEED TO HAVE SEE THAT IF YOU DO IT NOW THAT WAY, YOU'LL DO IT THEN. * THAT'S NOT A PRIESTHOOD PRAYER. A PRIESTHOOD PRAYER IS THIS. OH GOD, YOU SEE WHAT SHE DID. IT WAS OUT OF IGNORANCE. SHE'S BLIND. WOULD YOU HEAL HER BLINDNESS? I'M trying to do more than preach the sermon to you. God has sent this great attack on this minister. I can show this sermon to you. You didn't hear me. I'll try again. * I'm not here to preach this sermon to you. God allowed this great attack so I could show this sermon to you. I could teach you how TO PRAY FOR ALL MEN AND BE A PRIEST UNTO GOD. THOSE that are ruling and reigning are not sons. They're priest. Sons that have turned into priest. I want to say this. Christ was a son before he was a priest. * Sons are not priest until sons become priest. Remember what that verse said? And we have become priest and kings. You called us out from among men, but we still weren't priests. We had to become even after you called us out. We became priests and kings unto our God. Oh, hallelujah. Christ and his ministry today is not merely the Son of God. * He's the heir of all things. But to become the great high priest and to provide the priestly ministry on our behalf the Son had to go through the experience that was necessary to perfect him for the priesthood. I'll read it to you if you would like to hear it. Hebrews chapter 4 verse 15. Hebrews 4 15. He was not a priest before he went in that water. * Listen carefully. We have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities. Because in all points he was tempted. Wait a minute. Wait. Why? Why? Why? Do you not remember the verse we read previously? To have compassion, you must be compassed. Yeshua could not become priest even though he was Son of God until he had been compassed with every temptation that you have felt. * And I'll go one step further. If he felt those temptations with 1 oz more strength than you have. Then he's not the high priest because he never felt what you felt. Oh, no, no, no, no. Hey, you get me and Superman stand us right next to each other, okay? Shoot both of us with a bullet. He what He didn't feel what I felt. * Oh, he's a Superman. Oh, NO, BUT BUT BUT BUT IF HE FELT THE SAME PAIN I FELT AND BLED THE SAME BLOOD THAT I BLED, THEN HE'S QUALIFIED FOR THE PRIESTHOOD. YOU GOT TO suffer like they did. Every high priest Listen, now let's go to Hebrews 5. Come on now. It's about to get gooder and gooder here. Oh, I feel the blessed Holy Ghost. * Hebrews 5 and 8 through 10. Ooh, come on now. Hebrews 5 and 8 through 10. Now I'm about to show you he's your pattern. Ain't he your pattern? I said ain't y'all way y'all sure your pattern? If he's the pattern, let's follow the pattern. If he's going to be the high priest, you're going to be a priest, that means y'all all got to go through the same stuff. * Hebrews 5 verse 8 says these words, "Though he were a son, he was a son of God." But he wasn't no good as a priest. He was a son born again, baptized in the name and Holy Ghost I yeah he was a son but he still wasn't no use I said he still wasn't no use for the priesthood Brother don't say that I guarantee you it does even though he was a son he had to learn Now I'm a little confused Um if you've got to learn to obey Now I'm not the brightest bulb but don't that mean if you had to learn to obey at one time you was not * I don't know I don't know but I one time didn't you leave mom and daddy when they told you be ready to go at 3:00 and you stayed at the temple I mean come on AND ONE HE HAD TO LEARN OBEDIENCE EVEN though he was a son Why? Because God wasn't looking for sons he was looking for priest because if he can get a priesthood he can get everybody if he can get a PRIESTHOOD THAT WILL PRAY FOR EVERYBODY HE'S GOT TO HAVE A PRIESTHOOD HE'S GOT TO HAVE A PRIESTHOOD THAT WILL PUT ONE HAND TO HEAVEN AND ONE HAND TO HELL AND REACH IN BETWEEN THEM * But how did he learn that obedience? I'm glad you asked from all the hell that God allowed him to go through that made no sense to him Brother Branham, how did he learn obedience? I'll tell you how. When his own brothers came to him and said he ought to be in the madhouse. When they came up to Yeshua and instead of recognizing his ministry, they ridiculed him as a cult leader. * HE LEARNED OBEDIENCE BECAUSE GOD SENT THE PEOPLE THAT WAS GOING TO TEACH HIM HOW TO OBEY. WOO! YESHUA SENT HIM. LISTEN. He sent him. The Bible said Yeshua's in there healing the sick. Like I'm doing in this place tonight. I'm healing the sick. And the Bible said they went there and they were standing outside telling all the people on the little picket line they were standing on. * He's mad. They said that about your the Son of God. They said he's mad. Put him in a nut house. The people he had broke bread with. That's why I count it all joy. Cuz I read a verse of scripture that said if you'll suffer with me, then I'll let you reign with me. You got to go through what I went through. * You got to walk through EVERY VALLEY, EVERY TRIAL, CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN BECAUSE I'M TRAINING YOU FOR REIGNING. NOW, let me show you what that lesson taught him. Watch this. Now, I know it's getting late, but I ain't got nowhere to go. You know the lesson he learned from that? Watch this. Few days later, somebody said, "Pastor Yeshua, he was up there preaching. * Uh your mama and them's outside and they want to talk to you." He said, "I learned a lesson from the last experience. Who is my mother? I learned obedience. Who is my brother? I'm not leaving from my position. I learned my lesson. I learned the work of GOD COMES BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE. I'M TRAINING FOR REIGNING. * I'M SCHOOLING FOR RULING. I LEARNED MY LESSON." WOO! WOO! HALLELUJAH! SAID, "Even though he's a son, where was we just reading and I lost my spot?" Hebrews 5, what? From the things he suffered. Now, verse 9, notice that first line, "Then be uh Y'all, that goes against everything Christianity has ever taught. Then being perfected, Now, hold on. * He was a son, but he was not perfected. What perfected him? Prayer. And what drove him to prayer? His whole crazy family. Only after he became a priest, he became the what? He became the author of eternal life to anyone else that chooses to obey. Why? Because he became a priest. I want you all to hear me. Now, hold on. You'll all say amen that he became an author because he became a priest. * But, I know a bunch of other priests that are about to become authors of eternal life for a lot of other people just like Yeshua did. And once he was perfected, verse 10, now he's called by Yahweh a priest. Y'all missed it. Even though it was a sign, he wasn't a priest until he learned obedience by the things he suffered. * And then Yahweh called him a priest. My God, I wish I had time, so much more stuff here. Listen to me carefully. Many people have come up to me and said, "Pastor, honey, if you'll come. I don't understand. Since I came to the kingdom message, things have gotten worse. All hell has broken loose. My My you signed up for it. That's right. You said you wanted to become a priest. * You said you wanted to suffer with Christ. And now you're telling me what? That you're suffering? Welcome home. Welcome home. What God's doing in me is for eternity. What God's making of me is for eternity. Yes, not just for today or even tomorrow. This will pass away. What he's doing in me * is for eternity. What he's doing in me