Prayers That Move The Heavens

Before you are seated, can we thank God for our choir, and musicians, and technicians, and sound guys, and video, and everything. Come on, give them a shout. Turn around to two or three people, greet them, smile at them, and say something. Bless them, tell them something from the Lord right to their hearts. Thank you musicians, thank you technicians, sound guys, everybody. God bless you, welcome to everyone online. I'd like to speak a message today on prayers that move the heavens. How many of you want to see the heavens open over your life? Prayers that move the heavens. I was privileged yesterday, I was invited to come and participate. I did some interviews, and the communication media team are preparing a wonderful, big documentary movie on the life and ministry. Not only of Pastor David Wilkerson, but on the celebrating soon in the next year, the 40th year, four decades of Times Square Church. Can we give God praise for what He's done, and what He will do. Because of me coming here to preach 35, 37 years, every year except for COVID years. And then also traveling all over the world with Pastor Dave and Pastor Carter. I was just sharing, they asked me to share some testimonies and my perspective. I was reflecting on this message, prayer that moves the heavens. Can we just stop for a second and realize again, that if there is even a Times Square Church, a church right here, 51st and Broadway, the crossroads of the world, proclaiming the gospel of Christ. It is because somebody prayed prayers that opened the heavens. Somebody prayed, and so many hundreds and thousands really of people following online don't even know the history behind it. It's important to know where we come from as a church, to know where we are and where we're going. And please understand that we're only here, all this miracle, even being in this beautiful theater, is because men and women prayed prayers that moved the heavens. From Pastor David Wilkerson to a generation of the three pastors and the elders, men and women of prayer. I don't say this anywhere else, because I've traveled all over the world and 50 nations, and I've met many elders, many pastors, great men and women of God. But you have praying elders here in this church that have stood in prayer. I've never, I've not seen this anywhere else. The elders of this church are men that pray. Even for a longer season, 18 years, they were praying with Pastor Carter, Pastor David, Pastor Carter, Pastor Tim. But they were praying every morning, meeting every morning. I've traveled with these men, and they, six in the morning in Haiti or French Africa, and surrounding and praying.

And every Saturday, Pastor Tim and I text, and he's walking through this building, laying hands on every chair, balcony, everywhere. Thank God for men and women that pray prayers that open the heavens. Because when we, when we pray congregation, people, a remnant of people in New York City for the world, praying prayers that open the heavens, well then God will always answer us beyond anything we can imagine. Now in my notes it said you would say amen much louder than that to this. So, so I'm going to read to you the Word of God, and then, and I'm expecting something. Ephesians chapter 3, verse 14, 20 and 21. For this reason, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, and above, above all. Would you say it with me? Exceedingly, and abundantly, and above all, that we ask or think according to the power that works in us. To Him be all the glory in Jesus Christ from generations to generations, forever and ever. And all of God's people in Times Square Church, shout amen and give Him, would you let praise go up to that, to heaven today. Prayers that move the heavens. Without prayers of faith that moves the heavens, there's no story. There is no testimony. It is by faith only that we, we lay hold of the testimony. Without, without faith that prayers, prayers that move the heaven, there's no story to the glory of God. Without prayers that move the heavens, that... There's literally and biblically even impossible, it is impossible to even please God. The Word of God tells us that, Hebrews 11, 2 and 6, For by it, by this faith that moves the heavens, the elders obtain a good testimony. But without faith, it is impossible to please Him. Without this faith, so we must understand that prayers that move the heavens produce the supernatural testimonies. But it is faith that moves the heavens that protects the supernatural testimonies. In the last, through all the years, I've been in ministry 42 years, but in every decade, and I would say in the last decade, maybe even more, we have seen, and we do, we've seen this with grief in our heart, as the body of Christ worldwide, we have seen ministries that pray,

prayers that move the heavens and produce amazing testimonies, have sad years, have things that bring shame and hurt. So please understand, we all have a part, not only in praying, because prayer that moves the heavens produces the supernatural testimony, but also it protects the supernatural testimony. It perpetuates it, and it is God's will that His testimony would progress. That because His mercies are new every morning, it is an insult to His very nature to think that the best or the greatest miracles are yesterday or in the past. We thank God for yesterday, but we go from glory to glory, generations to generations, until He comes. Now the biblical kingdom principle and reality of an open heaven and a closed heaven is found throughout Scripture. Really, you go from Genesis to Revelation, you go from the father of faith, Abraham, to Moses, the friend of God, to David, the man of God's own heart. And then you go through the prophets and the patriarchs and to Christ and the apostles and the epistles, and even to us in the prophetic words, to the last days church, you will hear God say over and over this spiritual reality I want you to lay hold of today, as in Deuteronomy chapter 11, verse 13 to 17, and it shall be that if you earnestly obey my commandments, which I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul. And God says, I will give you rain for the land in its season, in the early rain and the latter rain. The early rain is all that God has done in your life. Can you stop for a second and say, when I think of the goodness of Jesus and all He's done for me, thank God. Would you give Him praise for the early rain in your life?

All the blessings of open heaven. The early rain, but the latter rain. There's always a new, a fresh outpouring of the open heavens for today and tomorrow that you may gather in your grain, in your wine, in your oil. Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them. Lest the Lord's anger be aroused against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there is no rain and the land yield no fruit. Open heavens. Closed heaven. Now the spiritual dynamic and differences between heavens of blessings and heavens as brass. That's the Bible expression for when the heavens are shut. Heavens as brass. The difference between heavens of blessing on your life or heavens as brass is not a geographical or historical reality. Well, this is a place where the open is heaven. Or this is a time in history where there's an open heaven. It's a spiritual, and it's a personal, spiritual, and relational reality. Now please understand this. You can be in a place or a season or a situation or a spiritual climate where many say, Oh, it's a horrible season. It's a closed heaven. This is a hard time. This is the apostasy. And you be walking under the open heaven of God's blessing on your life. Now please understand, and I say this with the greatest respect, but we need to stop for a second and ponder the blessing of God

over these four decades over our church here in New York City. Please understand, I have read over these 40 years, but even in recent years, I have read reports from ministries in New York that speak of New York as a place that's just dry. It's a desert. It's Sodom. It's abandoned. It's finished. It's over while we stand here every week under the open heaven of the presence and the power of God. Say yes, please. And this could be in your life. It doesn't matter what was in the generations before you and what was in your family and what was before. You can walk with God with an open heaven. And I believe that in the last days, it will be one of the ways that people of God will shine through recession and wars until Jesus come. God's people will be walking under an open heaven. Now this truth, this truth please understand this, you can also be in a season or a place where God is moving all over, all over the world and please have the discernment to know that as we are together here in New York but also all over the world together in 2026, God is moving all over the world. The heavens are open but you could be in a place and in a season where God is moving and opening the heavens and have the heavens as brass over your life. You could be in the midst sitting in a church where God is pouring out his blessing but because of your decisions, because of your and we're going to look at this today, you could have the heavens closed over your life. The Bible, there's a prophetic picture in scripture of such a Christian, such a church or a ministry numbers 4, 15 and 20. They will do, it speaks of a of a of a the temple and it says they will do all the service, they will finish all the covering and all the furnishing of the sanctuary but don't miss this, but they shall not touch any of the holy things. It is a picture of uh church is going on, the routine of church is going on. They, you could have singing and worship and buildings and history and and you got programs and you have tradition and doctrine and old stories and you have sermons

and you can even have prayers and not be touching the holy things. They all not be touching the touching the the anointing, the manifest presence of God. There's no breakthrough, there's no souls really being saved, transformed. There's no people that were indifferent or closed or hardened to God that just gets transformed, get a new heart and be be transformed by the power of God. There's no there's no true spiritual warfare, there's just a lot of hands beating in the air in the air. No no true warfare, no life-changing wrestling against overcoming and and turning back the forces of darkness. The apostle Paul describes it this way in first Corinthians 9 26. Therefore I run thus not with his uncertainty and he says this this is the way I fight and in this way I fight not as one who beats the air. The apostle Paul is literally saying I refuse to be reduced to spiritual shadow boxing. You know you might not know shadow boxing but I I've had men in my church, I've had uh professional boxers and professional trainers and I remember an old trainer telling me training these young guys and uh you have to be careful sometimes. There can't be sometimes too much shadow boxing. There's an illusion and there's a danger to shadow boxing because it's not hard when you're shadow boxing in the mirror to think you're really something. But to quote, so he would say you have to get them in the ring, you have to get the shadow boxing, they think they're so amazing. To quote the great theologian Mike Tyson, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. I'm here to tell you this is the same spiritually. You can have a lot of hands going around, you can have worship and singing. We need the manifest presence of God. We need to be in true warfare. We need the Holy Spirit to come and seize lives and break chains. He did it again. He did it and he did it again. We need to do more than singing it. We need to be experiencing it in the presence of God. Would you say yes if you want to warfare this way? Please understand the Bible teaches clearly and warns that there they can be prayer and still be under a closed heaven. That in our lives as a as a believer and as a body of believers all over the world this is the truth. We know many things in scriptures that warn us and tell us that it will shut the heavens over your life. We know bitterness will shut the heavens over your life. Envy and jealousy and an unrepentant heart and arrogance or strife and uh the the the unbelief and rebellion the the unforgiveness and many decisions and choices will close the heavens over your life. Let me show you three types of believers this is not exhaustive just show you uh scriptures teaches three three types of believers who can forfeit their open heaven in prayer. And the first one the Bible calls hypocrites. Now let me do a little um um TSC

survey. TSC uh survey honest uh honest survey uh hands uh lifted uh honest service. How many of you don't look around but how many of you and you can do this online too. How many of you have known you know or you have known of someone who's a religious hypocrite? Raise your hand please all over. Okay how many of you are a religious hypocrite? Nobody. Okay so we all know one. but we're not one ourselves, okay. The word hypocrite appears 20 times in the New Testament, 17 times by Jesus himself in one chapter, 7 times in Matthew 23. It's the strongest condemnation of Jesus, and still is, against hypocritical religion. Almost every time Jesus called someone hypocrites, he was not addressing unbelievers, but religious leaders that, that scribes, Pharisees, teachers, that, that, that pretended to be something spiritually that they weren't. The, the issue being confronted was not human weakness, but false spirituality. Appearing righteous before men with the heart, when the heart is far from God. This is what Isaiah said in Isaiah 29. Therefore the Lord said, in as much as these people they draw near with their mouths, and honor me with their lips, but they have removed their hearts from me. And their fear toward me is taught by the teachings of men. They've been under the teachings of blind and false teachers that robbed them of the true knowledge of the fear of God, and they're living their spiritual life in the, in the eyes of men, to be seen by men, to appear to be something. They have no fear of God, they just want to appear something before men. And it's interesting, and when Jesus used the word hypocrite, that we have an English hypocrite, in the Greek original, it was hypocrites. And hypocrites was a, a, a word that everybody used in everyday life, because it spoke, it, it was, it was describing a stage actor. Originally it was a stage, it was a word for a stage actor. A person who plays a role behind a mask. In the Greek world, actors would wear masks. They portrayed a character that was not themselves. They would say, like we go to a Broadway show, they would say, we're going to see, watch the hypocrites tonight. People that wear masks. So, so they're, in Jesus' words, so a hypocrite is someone who plays a spiritual role. Someone who appears righteous outwardly, whose heart does not match the appearance. And, and actually, all through the prophets, God will come,

comes to a place where sometimes He'll even say, stop praying. If you're going to pray with a hypocritical heart, stop praying. Isaiah chapter 1, he says, I have enough, stop. I have enough of your sacrifices from unrepenting hearts. I cannot endure this iniquity mixed with the sacred gathering, sacred meeting. Stop bringing me these corrupt sacrifices. They are not, they are an abomination to me. I am weary of burying them. I want to speak it loud and clear and may the Holy Spirit write it on our hearts. To obey is better than sacrifice. God is looking for obedience of the heart, not perfection, but obedience of the heart. Singing and dancing in church, when you're in sin and disobedience, will not open the heavens. Walking in the light, that you can replace righteous living during the week, with sacrifices of praise on Sunday, will close the heaven. But a lifestyle of repentance in the heart, allowing the light of the conviction of the Holy Spirit to come and shine, and shine in our soul, so we walk in honesty and humility and obedience, sensitive to Him, opens the heavens of grace and of supernatural strength. Please say amen. Hypocrites will, hypocrites will not see the heavens open. And the second category is hoarders, spiritual hoarders. The someone, a hoarder is someone who collects a large amount of things and keeps them for himself. Someone who will suffer, that suffers a mental condition that makes them accumulate, accumulate things for themselves. They're called compulsive hoarders. It is a mental condition, but it is also a spiritual sin and heresy that that will shut up the heavens over a believer, a ministry, a church or even a movement or denomination. Again, hear the Lord in Isaiah chapter 1. When you spread your hands, God says, when you spread your hands, and I will hide my eyes from you. Even though you make many prayers, and when you look at history, they would spend hours praying. God said, I'm not hearing your hand. Why? Because your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves. Make yourselves clean. Put away the evil of your doing. Strong words before my eyes. Cease to do evil. Learn to do good. Seek justice. Rebuke the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead for the widow. Prayer and preaching with an unholy fixation with prosperity, without a

passion and generosity for the poor, is a grave and toxic misrepresentation of God's heart. His love, His mercy, His justice, His compassion and selfless generosity. You can't ignore God's big four and expect to have the heavens open over you. And believers can go sometimes their whole lives without knowing what God's big four is. God's big four. God's passion all over hundreds of scripture where God speaks of the widow, the orphan, the poor, and the immigrant. I'm going to say it again. The widow, and the orphan, and the poor, and the immigrants are the apple of God's eye. of God's heart of God's eye they're in his heart and we're not his people if we don't expect the heavens to be open if you don't have a heart and if you don't have that generosity and that preoccupation and that passion to reach the poor it's when we are in sync with his heart that he pours out the blessings from heaven say yes please did you did you see the seriousness of the language that God uses he ceased to do evil learn to be generous seek justice fight the oppressor defend the fatherless provide for the widow and you will see the heaven open over your life over your business over your family over the church i believe it is a reason why God has provided through i believe in the last of these last days when the economy crashes on all sides those that would have stood with the poor in the name of Jesus will never lag there will always be an open heaven mark my words yesterday i was giving the interview for the um for the documentary on the 40 years uh and also on the ministry of brother david and i was sharing this testimony that that literally was is foundational to our church our church is 30 um 33 years old and we we started with 40 people this weekend there's over 9 000 people that are gathering on 11 locations and in quebec and in france french churches and when we started i was just i was coming to preach already uh here regularly and i was a few weeks before uh starting our church with 40 people small little building and i was nervous and i wanted to ask brother dave and advice uh as if you have had advice for me and and i also knew that brother dave was not was not a fan of all these books of uh seven keys and eight secrets and the nine this and and and easy steps and so so but i still ask i said brother david there was something um you mentored me you you mentored me in prayer and fasting and and and uh staying true to the word and preaching the word without compromise but but if there's something that you you can give me it's my first pastor i'm 30 years old and if there's something and and we're walking together on 8th

avenue here and uh uh 8th and 51st and and we're walking and and he he's silent for a few seconds and then then he turned around brother david wilkerson was extremely intense blue eyes laser blue eyes very intense and he turned around and he says oh other other young pastors have asked me that and uh they say they're gonna do it but then they say oh thank you thank you they said they're gonna do it and then they they don't do it or they stop when it gets hard so um do you do you want to know i said yes sir i want to know and then he's getting very very intense as those of you knew him he can get and then he goes do you really want to know and i'm like i don't know and anymore i don't know if i don't but i in my heart i said that not not out loud but so i said yes sir i want to know and then he said okay listen to me find the poor find people that cannot do anything for you and bless them and be generous for them and fight for them and then then then then his whole face lit up he says and then watch god bless you do you understand that is the story that is the history of teen challenge of this church thank god for 40 years of of tsc missions every video you see at tsc missions and mercy in new york and around the world as long as we stay with our heart fixed on those that need that are in greater need than we are and we give generously and with sacrifice the heavens will open over over us until jesus come give him praise and give with all your trust come on prayer that moves the heaven three types of believers that will not see the heavens open hypocrites hoarders and husbands not all husbands and i've got some guys are getting nervous not all husbands but there is a significant truth that is often ignored that this this is from peter who was a married man an emotional i i believe it was an emotional sanguine from what we know from scriptures and probably a pretty intense husband maybe choleric type of husband we know he was married uh because jesus healed his mother-in-law and he wrote in first peter 3 7 husbands likewise dwell with your wives that dwell with them with understanding giving honor and to to your wife as a weaker vessel and being hairs together of the grace of life don't miss this that your prayers would not be hindered that literally that please a few few explanation what what does the weaker vessel means it's not it's no moral or spiritual weakness peter explicitly says that wives are hairs with you of the grace of life that that puts men and women on equal spiritual standing before god so the weakness is not about value intelligence or or spirituality, primarily it was about physical and situational vulnerability. Women were generally, in the Greco-Roman context, the women were generally physically weaker than men, but also extremely, it was an extremely violent society, very unprotective of women.

They were also socially more vulnerable, less protection, more dependent. And the main command, the focus of the verse is not defining women, it's correcting men, it's warning men. Peter commands husbands to live with understanding, know your wife deeply, show honor, value, respect, elevate, treat her carefully so that your prayers may not be hindered. A husband's spiritual life is directly affected by how he treats his wife at home. Dishonor at home will block fellowship with God and shut the heavens. In my first years when I was traveling as an evangelist, and I would preach in churches of different sizes, but oftentimes very small churches. And in every small church, there's a couple of people that do everything. And there was one church where I went to, and this man, as soon as I get there, he drove me, and he's doing the song, and he's doing the worship, and he's in the choir, and he's doing sound, and he's doing, he's like in five places, it's all over. And the pastor told me, oh, this guy's doing everything in this church. And I thought, wow, he's quite the servant in the church. And on Sunday night, I'm praying, I finish the service, and there's a woman who comes by, and she says, see me, pastor, can I speak with you for a second? And she begins to weep so, so deeply, and she says, please pray for me. I'm living hell at home. My husband never keeps a job, and we don't pay our bills. We don't pay the rent, so we run from apartment to apartment at night when we haven't paid. And sometimes we don't have food to eat, and he disappears for days, and he's very angry, and he punches walls, and we're afraid in the house. And I'm thinking, and she's like, please, please help me. And I said, sister, I'm leaving tonight. I'm going to a different city. I'm going to, I can't follow up with this. This is very serious. Let me find someone for you. And I look at that brother, and I said, brother, come on over here. And she goes, oh, no.

Some of you ladies are seeing me come like a Mack truck. That's the husband. So spiritual in church. I learned as a pastor, I can say this, and my wife would testify to this. In 42, 43 years of ministry, I've never preached a Sunday morning angry with my wife. Never, never. I would never. I can't. I know the heavens would be shut. Sometimes it was close. And in my early years, just newly married, and in most of our biggest fights are in the first five years. But in the, don't look at me like that, Pharisees. So I, one time I was traveling, but that Sunday I was in church. I wasn't preaching in our church where I was attached to. And we had a fight on Saturday, and it lasted, you know, just not talking. It's very cold and rolling up the eyes and all that. So we go to church, and it's even through the service, but I'm not doing anything. And we're getting ready for Sunday night, and it's still, she's in her room. I'm in, you know, it's not good. And we get to church, and I'm okay because I'm not preaching. So we get there, and the pastor, the senior pastor leans over to me, and he says, oh, I want you to take the communion tonight. I want you to speak a word over communion. I'm like, oh. So during the worship, my wife is over there, and I'm in my corner, and she's taking communion. So I go, I slid over. Honey, I'm so sorry. Please forgive me. I'm trying to make things right before taking communion. Can we all say amen to say, Lord, the way we live at home will be a definite importance

on how the heavens will open or close over our lives. That's for husbands and for wives and for children. In Jesus' name, and everyone says amen, please. Give God praise for that. That's how they. So I just want to look at a passage in James chapter 5 where there is an amazing opening of the heavens. It speaks of Elijah opening the heavens, but it's also in James chapter 5, we are going to look at God's plan and will for his church to be a community of prayer that will move the heavens. And it gives us many marks of prayer that moves the heavens. I'm only going to, I've taught this over weeks at our church, but this is only two, only two thoughts this afternoon. And this people, you have to understand that the people that he's speaking to in James are people from the diaspora. They've been scattered, they experienced a horrible persecution in Jerusalem. They're scattered over nations, but they're scattered in nations that despise them, that persecute them, that want to cancel them. And they are overwhelmed and under such pressure. But the Holy Spirit inspires James to remind them that they're calling position in Christ and kingdom purpose together. is to be a people who will pray prayers that will move the heavens. so we look at this beautiful passage together in James chapter 5 and verse 13. is anyone among you suffering? let him pray. is anyone cheerful? let him sing psalms. is anyone among you sick? let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord and the prayer of faith will save the sick and the Lord will raise him up and he and if he has committed sins he will be forgiven. confess your trespasses to one another and and pray for one another that you may be healed. and here it is the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man with a

nature like ours but he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and it did not rain over the land for three years and six months and he prayed again and the heavens gave rain and the earth produced its fruit. would you say amen to the Word of God? so so so this is a picture of God's heart for church and I say this it sounds simplistic but millions of believers their experience in church is to come and watch the band and listen to the word and go home and never actually get involved and what God what God wants is church to be a community it's not of healing of men and women praying prayers that open to heaven for one for one another and when he speaks of praying for healing the word that is used here is not it's not only for physical healing because the same word in the Greek is used many times even in James to speak of people that were under distress under persecution the original Greek speaks of people that need healing because they're under pressure they're suffering mentally or spiritually emotionally they is anyone suffering is that one weary exhausted feeling helpless or without strength that includes physical healing but does not limits to physical healing and here's God's picture that God's dream God's intent for for his body for us that that when you're coming and suffering as many are here today and many of us and all over the nation you can come to a place it's church a place where you can come and stand for one another where you can come and not only to be the pastors on stage with a microphone but where each of us come with intent and know that we can stand before God and pray prayer that opened the heavens over my brother over my sister and see God come and intervene and bring healing and deliverance and where you can come and learn to come in humility and have somebody stand for you and say I need prayer you're not coming with the mask you're coming saying Lord and even he it's a community that confesses sins it's a community that opens up to each other and and everyone is praying prayers that opens the heavens and he gives two marks of the prayers that opens the heavens in the same chapter there's more than two but I'm only looking at two today two marks of prayers that open the heavens because this passage is very well known the

factual fervent prayer of the righteous man of El much but most people don't know even know the context of the chapter but the context of the chapter gives it all its strength and its importance and its true value prayers of the prayers that will move the heavens are always prayers of patience for the precious fruit it's found in the same chapter but in verse 7 therefore be patient brethren until the coming of the Lord see how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth waiting patiently say this word that you love so much say patiently patiently for it until you receive the early and the latter rain same passage you also same principle you also be patient establish your hearts for the coming of the Lord is at hands so there's there's this picture of of every believer that this is this is the prayers that open the heavens it's a prayer where men and women imperfect of like nature like Elijah which we know from scripture was so human normal and perfect but are standing in spiritual patience which means spiritual resilience and courage and faith and and faithfulness and praying specifically for what the scripture called the precious fruit and the precious fruit are the things of internal eternal values the precious fruit is praying for someone's salvation it's praying for someone's deliverance it's praying for someone that is totally away from God or closed or or a rebellious or a driven drifted away to come back to God it's to pray for reconciliation it's to pray for miracle it's to pray for the healing emotional healing of someone who's been abused it is a community that prays and calls out and is patient and his perseverance he prayed and he prayed again and his patient and this is the prayer that Satan wants to shut down more than he wants us to become just just babies calling for ourselves and please understand that God loves to he asks us in many scriptures to come to him with our needs to to our loving father who loves to bless his children but their prayer that opens the heaven is a prayer that yes I come to God with my knee with my needs but I'm also coming for someone else I am coming aligning my heart strengthening my heart establishing my heart realigning my heart foundationally setting my heart with the patience and the heart of God who's not willing that any should perish but that all should come to

repentance oh please say amen you understand again our history this is the heart and profound motivation that has been opening heavens of provision and miracles over t times square church and world challenge that was founded by David Wilkerson for over 40 years you so many don't even know that and thank God for for the play that is coming that will tell the story thank God for this documentary that will tell the story but all of this is a man praying and praying in his in his church in Pennsylvania but hearing a call of God to come to New York City to go to towards people that are bound that are got nothing to give back to him but grief and hurt and violence and vile vile opposition but he's standing for the precious fruit patient for the precious fruit and God opens the heaven and and that that's that's generation to generation that's pastor David that's pastor Carter that is the um summit school of international ministry that's the vision it's a trained man and women to fight for the precious fruit that's the Wednesday night prayer meeting that is the the mission the vision of pastor Tim to bring this word all over the world uh to the nations until Jesus come we are fighting for the precious precious fruit hallelujah in your family close and I know how hard the fight can be how long the fight it's a it's a patience it's a spiritual renewing that's why he says establish your hearts there is a there's a holy spirit that can we that that that we ask him to renew re-establish realign me not on what I see but on who you are and what you've promised for a son for a daughter for a family for for our city for our nation for backsliders and this is when when we pray prayers of patience for the precious fruit God can take us beyond what we see what we see he takes us in the realm of the invisible in the realm of I don't see you you know what I'm talking about you're praying for someone you're praying for this healing you're praying for this person you're praying for this son this daughter you're praying for this this person that's so bound uh the they're addicted and it's been so long and humanly speaking you can't see anything but when we come uh with the holy holy spirit patience and I say God re-establish my heart realign my heart with yours he gets he fills us with a a faith and a fighting spirit to fight and pray and I will pray again pray and I will pray again pray and I will pray again because I believe in the invisible say yes please just before I came this week yet one of our pastors said well uh it's my day it's my dad's birthday Jacques's birthday and uh he's 89 years old I said wow it's amazing and we both stopped and and in the hall but just in front of my office and we just said oh god you're so amazing because in the Jacques was my my my my pastor friend's dad uh in the year 2000 already had been

through many years of an excruciating uh violent battle with cancer every treatment every uh and and in 2000 he was um on a what what humanly speaking looked like his dead bed that stopped treatments and and on a sunday on a saturday they called me and said if you can come after the second service please come to the hospital because he they say it's a matter of days and I and when I walked to the hospital and this is a good man this is a man of God loves the Lord and we know that absent from the body this is just a shell absent from the body we're in the presence of Jesus so this man was was gone was in peace but I I when I came to the hospital I had a shiver in my spirit because they all the kids and grandkids were lined up around his room I was like wow the young three generations just walked in and I walked in the room and he's lying there and he's green and gray and he's got tubes and he's semi-conscious and they said would you pray with him and I talked with him a little bit he was unresponsive so then I said well I'll just we'll just pray so the family gathers and I grab his hand I begin to pray and I'll be very honest with you my my sentiment humanly with my not only my eyes my understanding my what I what I was what I could discern in my own limitation Was just to pray with him and Lord Your servant is coming to you and your will be done and just just a prayer a pastoral prayer of peace and that's fine And I just stood stood there and I held his hand and just before before praying I just was praying in the Spirit in my in my heart and when the Bible says and when we know not how to pray The Spirit make it intercession with groanings that cannot be uttered because the Spirit knows the mind of God I'm talking to you about prayers that open the heavens our prayer where you say Lord I am not limited by what I see i'm gonna set my heart realign my heart with your purposes and your word And this invisible world world where your word can create things that I can't even imagine or see That's what we prayed at the beginning. So I prayed with him and instead instead of of the prayer that I had in mind I words began to pour out of me and I and it was I wasn't speaking loudly But I began to say Lord it just it was so so true to me. I said Lord the same spirit that Jack is ready to meet you. But the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead Dwells in us and you you can raise him too to be a testimony to his family and to his kids I just just laid a hold of me and and and in a short prayer, but in a matter of minutes, uh, He started to open his eye in movement. He was saying something. What is he saying?

He's saying take take the take the tubes off and so the nurse comes in she says what's going on here and we're thinking we don't Know what's going on? And then he so she he wants the tube off. She says, okay And i'm gonna make a long story short It started to run he got so much better that he came out of the hospital the week after Uh, and then he started to run all the tests on him one year cancer-free two years cancer-free after five After five years, they said you're officially in remission 10 years cancer-free 20 years cancer-free 26 years cancer-free serving god I'm talking about prayer that will open the heaven in g. Would you lift your hands just for a second? It might be for a physical healing. It might be for a spiritual healing. It might be for deliverance It might be for a son. It might be for a daughter. It might be for a backslider. It might be for a emotional healing a a deliverance from addiction it might whatever it might be it is A spiritual treasure. It is the precious fruit and in jesus name. Oh god open our eyes We're setting our hearts Aligned with yours and we will pray and pray again with patience for the precious fruit in jesus name Shout amen with me hallelujah So let me close with this thought prayer that moves the heavens is prayer of patience for the precious fruit And it's prayer with a perspective And pursuit don't miss this That is often ignored that we don't connect with prayer, but james 5 Connects it so powerfully that we can't miss it. We have to understand we have to discern this When you go through the book of james, it's all the it's practical christian living It's every aspect of practical christian living you go chapter by chapter. It's a manual on christian living day to day It is some theologian call it the most practical epistle in the new testament It deals with so so many things that are of the earth that that we are to to to live in By the kingdom of god, uh in these matters of every day it deals you go chapter by chapter It deals with the handling of of money and temptation jealousy speaking the truth Be quick to listen

And slow to speak Say to somebody next to you that's still good advice say that somebody Is It's it's in your face. It's an in-your-face epistle where he says practice You bet you better practice and not just just listen to the word, uh of god Don't practice don't just listen to it. Uh, it speaks it warns against favoritism It says it speaks of a faith without works is dead If your brother lacks food or clothing and you say god bless you and you keep walking your faith is dead And he goes through all all these very very Tangible things but he emphasizes chapter by chapter a vital perspective and pursuit connected to prayer That is often totally ignored when we think of prayers that open that move to heaven. Please don't miss this Here it is. He says don't forget the relational dimension of the kingdom of god There's a relational the importance of the relational dimension is profoundly Spiritual and this is true for every believer online and here but i'm going to address this also as a pastor This is true And so important for leaders for church leaders for people that have responsibilities in church for pastors for staff for people that sing for people that that lead in the church that how we are with one another the the unity and and I Had not consulted with pastor patrick and when in both services pastor patrick had this word about communion on unity. I Really feel that the Holy Spirit is speaking to us. Speaking to us here, it's a protective word. But it's also for you in the nations. Because I've seen this all over the world. All over the world. Please understand that the enemy can never, that the devil, darkness, persecution, governments, elected officials, can never stop the kingdom of God. Jesus will build his church and hell will not prevail.

But it is the poison from inside that has quenched so many revivals. And has divided churches that have had an open heaven and see it can bring a shut heaven for so long. And when you go through the chapters in James, I challenge you to read James this week. It's so fast to read. It's just a few chapters. But if you look at just the headings, the themes of each chapter in James, you look at chapter one and it closes with the words, be slow to anger. The anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. The chapter two, beware of personal favoritism in the house of God. Chapter three, the untamable tongue. How we can bring life and death with our words. Chapter four, pride promotes strife. And chapter five, just before the teaching on the effectual fervent prayer unveils much. And Elijah was a man of light nature and he prayed and the heavens opened. There's this divine, there's this important warning. Look, the whole buildup and then in chapter five, verse nine do not grumble against one another. You look at the Greek, it has so many variations. Do not grumble against one another. Do not speak ill of one another. Do not keep bitter words against one another. Do not gossip against one another.

Do not slander one another. Do not be jealous of one another. Brethren, lest you be condemned. Lest you shut the heavens on yourselves and on the body. Behold, what words? Behold, the judge is standing at the door. So God is standing, of course, he's speaking of the second coming. The Lord Jesus is standing at the door of times, of all times, everything is in control in his hands. But he's also standing at the door of my heart and your heart and he's standing at the door of my mouth and my thoughts and my motivations. And please understand this. He's saying how important this is. He's giving laws of the kingdom. Please hear this and everybody in leadership in church, please hear this. In the kingdom of God, the pursuit of peace is more important than the production. We can produce fantastic things, fantastic music and everything is perfect and so many churches are running perfect programs. But the pursuit of the peace among us is more important to God than the production. The attitudes are more important than the accomplishments. In the kingdom of God, ego is the enemy. The testimony of unity of the team is more important than talents and titles. The relationships are more important than results.

The we, the we together, the we is more important than the wow. There's a lot of wow going on, a lot of great production, but God is looking at how we get there and how we treat each other, how we forgive each other, how we do our loudest, our strongest effort, intentional effort to preserve the bond of unity will determine if the heavens are open or the heavens are closed. And Paul had a, and I will close with this, Paul had a prophetic picture of it in Ephesians. In the book of Ephesians, he says in Ephesians 4, 26, 32, be angry and do not sin. Do not let the sun go down on your anger, your wrath. Don't give place, access and agree to the devil. He says, let no corrupt words proceed out of your mouth. And corrupt words is not only cursing words, but it's words that are not bringing edification. It's words that are not bringing peace. It's words of comparison, of jealousy, of putting down, of bitterness. It's words that sow dissension. And then if you have to speak, if it's necessary for you to speak, let it be for edification. That when you speak, it brings, it imparts a grace to the hearers. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you were sealed. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, evil speaking

be put away from you with all malice and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. Would you say yes to the word of God? Yes. Did you see the picture? Did you see the picture? It says two things happen to a believer, to a team, to a department, to a ministry, no matter how the performance is, no matter how good it all looks. Two things happen if bitterness is allowed, if the clamor is allowed, if the grumbling is allowed, if the criticism is allowed, if the jealousy is allowed, if the unforgiving is allowed. is allowed. Two things happen. Two things in the spiritual realm that are so powerful. They are so determining of everything. The Bible, the Scripture says, and Paul caught a glimpse of it. He says there's two things that happen. The first thing that happens when the heart is bitter is that you open and access, free access to the devil. Free access to his lies, to torment. I have seen ministers that had amazing revelations and in latter years, in latter years, let bitterness enter their soul. Let bitterness, because they were hurt in ministry, whatever the reason, the offense was real. The wound was real. But they let it fester and it hardened them. And then the enemy begins to torment them and lie to them. So when you are in bitterness and unforgiveness, even if the offense was real, I'm underlining that. I know the offense was real. The wound was real. But if you allow it to live in your life, the first thing it does, it opens, it shuts the heaven, it opens the door to access free to the enemy in your life and then it saddens, it quenches, it grieves the Holy Spirit. So you are so vulnerable spiritually because the enemy is bombarding you and the precious Holy Spirit who will lead you into truth, the comforter who heals and takes away the heart of stone and gives a heart of flesh. You've shut down

the door to the Holy Spirit and you pray to the enemy. I stand today saying in Jesus' name, only God knows what's facing us in our nation, in our city, as a church, but we will be a people who will protect unity in this body. We will protect it in every department, every leader, every pastor, every musician, every singer, every song leader, every technical, every media. We will stand in unity and protect the bond of unity by the Spirit of God. Say amen, please. We will shut the door to the enemy and say, Holy Spirit, come and strengthen me supernaturally in the inner man to release and to forgive. In Jesus' name, say amen, please. This is why, for this reason, we bow our knee. For this reason, we bow our knee. You know, spiritually, we are always no more than 20 inches away from mercy, from the heaven's opening, from healing, from a release, from 20 inches away. It's only, spiritually, it's the only difference. For this reason, we bow our knee. We're always 20 inches away from standing and our heart's getting harder and harder sometimes in pride and defiance or just in bitterness and kneeling. That's the distance between standing and this is why, 20 inches. I bow my knee before God and I am praying, Holy Spirit, this is why we bow our knee, for the heavens to open. I'm asking the musicians to come, please. For this reason, I bow my knee. The last verse, Ephesians 3, 14, to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might through his spirit in the inner man. In Jesus' name, and everyone say amen. By the power of the Holy Spirit, straightening us, establishing, straightening, realigning, fortifying, healing, delivering our heart, realigning it with God's patience. We will pray and pray again. In the word, effectual fervent prayer, effectual, the Greek word means with effect, with force. When we pray, we sang it today, when we pray, things change. And then the fervent, the word for fervent, energeo, speaks of the, of divine energy, of divine capacity. I don't have the capacity to continue fighting for this, but there's divine energy strengthening me in the inner man. I don't have the capacity to forgive the situation, to forgive this hurt, to forgive this abuse, to forgive this injustice, to forgive this disappointment, but in Jesus' name, by the power of the Holy Spirit, that he will realign my heart. Last week we had a water baptism, and we, by the grace of God, are baptizing over 500 people the last year, and young people coming from out, getting saved, and it's such a Sunday morning, last

Sunday morning, just the testimonies we read out, and we interview people that give testimonies, and it's the glory of God, of life transformed, and then we make an altar call, and so many come to Christ, and I love the baptism services, and we have the baptismal tank, and we would say their name, their stories are read before they go under the water, and families come and gather and take pictures and film, and it's just a glorious time. And last week, there was a young man who was getting baptized, and there's like 50 people that came. Family came and and and I smiled and it's what was just watching the scene and they're all taking pictures And he's so proud and it comes out of the water He came out of the water like Superman just came out and almost flew out of the tank and and it just They're so happy Those two families Came from a country in French Africa that I will not name But one day were when they were in the old country They were serving in this church and there were two families of two two dads and the wives and the kids Took very close families and they're both in ministry They were lay pastors, but preaching and serving and and and I'm not gonna say the details but something happened very deep very deep offense took place things have been between children and and and There was such a division such a a tearing of those two family It's horrible and and those families have been like brothers and sisters and the kids So the parents that the two husband the two men Was so so filled with anger and bitterness that they each over a few months quit serving in ministry Just sat in the church and and forbid their families for speaking to the other family and then it lasted a couple of years and and the kids started to drift away from the things of God and then then they They they came to Montreal one family moved to Montreal and they come from this other continent and they they joined our church And we have two services with 2,000 people in each service and we have it We have 20 services over a weekend over 11 sites But in our main building two services, so they come in and and this this man came to our church and he testified later I I enjoyed the preaching and it was doing me good But then pastor Cole started a series four weeks on forgiveness And he says I was so agitated and I just felt like he said I kept looking at my wife

I said you talking to him about me and he was so so he said I don't understand it I love God up, but he was so agitated in his spirit and a third or fourth week as pastor Patrick did today He came in and he's sitting there and I by then by now. It's just heavens are shut by now. He's not singing He's not praying. Just it's been years. It's just it's just so bitter and and he didn't know but the other families a few years after decided to immigrate to Montreal and To join Nouvelle Vie join our church and they decided to come for the first time that week And sit without knowing sat directly behind them So they don't know the two men don't know and I say turn around Give your best smile to somebody around and tell somebody I'm so glad you here and they turn and go The two men the women are like, oh Do you understand the odds of that happening to mathematical odds of that happening? I am telling you unity is important to the heart of God to reopen to heaven over your life. Say yes, please So they so so one of the two guys actually moved away to the other side of the building as if that Just come with me. I can't sit behind this and he came to the other So they're both at the each end of the building but the Holy Spirit is doing its work and when the altar call came one of them went to the other and just And the guys and the wives and the kids and this is years ago They're all serving in the church. The children came back to God are serving the youth and young young adults and I'm watching And I'm watching all this whole crew this whole family of the legs 40 of them around the water baptism But the youngest one is getting by 16 17 is getting baptized testifying of his faith in Christ And I believe that it could have all been stolen by the devil if a man if these men are not open their heart Realign their hearts so that the heavens would be open in Jesus name and all of God's people say amen And amen and amen, please put give him a shout in the house of God today Hallelujah We can even stand up and give Jesus a standing ovation in the house of God Would you give him a standing ovation and a shout of praise in the house of God? No, no, no. No, you can do better than that. Good. Please please please Come on come on clap before him Lord Jesus open to heaven Thank you for the open heavens over our church over our lives over my family over my children I am giving you an ovation Oh God because the open heavens over my life. Oh Lord Jesus realign our hearts

Now would you lift your hands with me Lord Jesus realign our hearts? We all know we will pray for the precious fruit. We're gonna pray Oh God, we will pray and pray again We we come we come against a spirit of discouragement and of slumber and a spirit of unbelief The blindness that the enemy is trying to put over my eyes in the name of Jesus. We will pray and pray again I believe that I'm a man. I'm a woman same nature as Elijah Imperfect my righteousness is not in myself. My righteousness is in you oh christ hallelujah jesus christ i'm righteous because of you and i can pray that the heavens may open and i will pray again for the precious fruit in the name of jesus begin to speak the name of someone you're praying for begin to speak the name i will speak in a moment we'll sing it but we need to pray first come on lift your hands lift your voices and lord god i bring every hurt every wound every offense every woundedness every bitterness i bring to you i don't want it in my spirit oh god i don't want it in my spirit lord god i pray a protection over timesquare church we are called to be a voice in these last days and the enemy would fly would like to come inside inside leadership inside building inside departments inside our hearts our family our couples god i pray an open heaven of healing over every marriage over every family over every every son and daughter over every husband and wife over every department oh god as pastor tim does every saturday we we anoint this building with an oil of unity how good it is for brethren to dwell together that is where god commands a blessing and opens the heaven so lift your hands to give him that oh god that impossible situation and that hurt and that bitterness and that woundedness i give to you and i'm i'm just going to speak the name of jesus come on let's sing it let's pray it with all our hearts hallelujah come on declare the name of jesus i just want to speak the name of jesus let me hear the body of christ let me hear the god's people i'm gonna sing it again i just i just want to speak the name of jesus let me hear you oh i just want to speak the name of jesus speak the name of jesus over your family declaring there is hope there is freedom declaring there is hope and there is freedom i speak jesus come on come on people of god shout it with me your name come on your name is power your name is healing the name of jesus the name of jesus free free

to every soul speak his name your name is oh come on let's sing it speak his name now shout jesus shout jesus shout jesus jesus in the streets jesus in the darkness over every enemy jesus for my family i speak the holy name of jesus of jesus speak jesus on the streets come on speak jesus on the streets shout jesus from the mountains oh jesus in the streets jesus in the darkness over every enemy jesus for my family oh i speak the holy name jesus hallelujah your name your name is power your name is healing your name is

fire hallelujah break every stronghold shine through the shadow burn dying fire i want to call this service in a particular way do this with respect men with men and women with women be respectful if you don't know the person next to you but i i feel that we should live james chapter five just for a moment uh would you put your head over someone's shoulder next to you men with men and women women and begin to pray for one another balcony main floor wherever you're watching from around the world in your in your car wherever you are in your house in your kitchen in your living room just begin to pray for one another that we would be in james chapter five right now praying over one another is there one suffering let them pray over one another let them pray over one another and the prayer of faith will heal not only heal the six oh lord heal bodies and heal minds and heal families and heal woundedness of the depths of woundedness and heal history and heal of abuse in the name of jesus heal marriages heal couples and marriages and relationship restore restore from brokenness oh god i pray in the name of jesus realign our hearts we pray for one another we pray oh god with faith we pray believing that our prayers are effective and our prayer are are are led by the divine energy of god divine energy of god in jesus name the effectual fervent lord god i confess i need to be renewed and baptized in fresh fresh fresh fire fresh oh god fervency fresh power capacity by your holy spirit oh that we would pray and pray again that we would pray and pray again and give us eyes in the spirit to see to see the victory your name is power your name is power hallelujah speak power over each other speak power over each other speak peace over each other speak healing over each other in the name of jesus his his name is power his name is power come on let's declare it his name is your name is power your name is your name is break every stronghold

come on give him praise give him praise give him a shout of praise