The Power of Short Prayers | The Remedy for Unanswered Prayers | Jentezen Franklin

TOGETHER, WE'RE INSPIRING PEOPLE TO LIVE FOR JESUS. IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR MORE IN LIFE, TO LIVE WITH PURPOSE AND PEACE, TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR YOUR FAMILY AND THOSE IN NEED AROUND THE WORLD, JESUS IS THE ANSWER. AND OUR MISSION IS TO SIMPLY POINT YOU TO HIM. YOU'RE WATCHING KINGDOM CONNECTION WITH JENSEN FRANKLIN. CHAPTER 38 AND VERSE 22, HAVE YOU ENTERED THE TREASURY OF SNOW, OR HAVE YOU SEEN THE TREASURY OF HAIL, WHICH I HAVE RESERVED FOR THE TIME OF TROUBLE? NOTICE SNOW, AND HE'S TALKING ABOUT HAIL MEANING FROZEN RAIN. HE SAYS WHICH I HAVE RESERVED FOR THE TIME OF TROUBLE. RESERVE WHAT? SNOW. RESERVE IT FOR THE TIME OF TROUBLE, FOR THE DAY OF BATTLE AND WAR. Verse 26, TO CAUSE IT TO RAIN ON THE LAND WHERE THERE IS NONE. Verse 27, TO SATISFY DESOLATE WASTE, TO SPRING FORTH THE GROWTH OF TENDER GRASS. Verse 30, THE WATER IS HARDENED LIKE STONE AND THE SURFACE OF THE DEEP IS FROZEN. SO YOU'RE WONDERING WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THAT ABOUT? WELL, I WANT TO PREACH TO YOU FOR A FEW MOMENTS ON HAVING, CREATING, BUILDING A TREASURY, A RESERVE. ANOTHER WORD FOR TREASURY WOULD BE A RESERVOIR, A RESERVE OF SNOW. IN ISAIAH 55 AND VERSE 8 IT SAYS THAT THE WORD OF GOD IS POWERFUL AND HE SAID IT WILL NOT RETURN VOID. HE SAID YOUR THOUGHTS ARE NOT MY THOUGHTS AND YOUR WAYS ARE NOT MY WAYS AND MY WORDS AS THE RAIN COMES DOWN AND THE SNOW FROM HEAVEN, JUST REMEMBER THAT, AND DOES NOT RETURN THERE BUT THE WATER ON THE EARTH TO BRING FORTH AND TO CAUSE BUDS AND CAUSE THE SEEDS TO GROW, SO SHALL MY WORD BE THAT GOES FORTH OUT OF MY MOUTH. SO SHALL WHAT THE WORD BE. IT'LL BE LIKE SNOW FROM HEAVEN. THERE'S A COMPARISON THAT HE'S DRAWING TO SNOW AND TO GOD'S WORD AND EVEN WHEN WE SPEAK GOD'S WORD, WHEN WE READ GOD'S WORD, WHEN WE PRAY GOD'S WORD, IT'S A TYPE, IT'S IN THIS TEXT, IT IS A SYMBOL OF SNOW AND I'LL SHOW YOU THAT MORE AND MORE AS WE GO.

I LOVE THE SCRIPTURE IN ISAIAH 45 AND VERSE 3, I'LL GIVE YOU TREASURES OF DARKNESS AND HIDDEN SECRETS IN SECRET PLACES. I LOVE THAT VERSE. I'VE ALWAYS LOVED THAT VERSE. I SEE IT AS THE WORD OF GOD IS HIDDEN TREASURE THAT YOU DON'T GET UNLESS GOD OPENS YOUR EYES WITH REVELATION. I FEEL LIKE THIS IS ONE OF THOSE MESSAGES TODAY. IT IS SOMETHING THAT IF YOU GET AHOLD OF IT, IT CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING. MY MAIN TEXT TODAY IS JOB 38 AND VERSE 22, HAVE YOU ENTERED INTO THE TREASURY OF SNOW WHICH I, GOD SAYS, RESERVE. I RESERVE IT. IF THERE'S SNOW THAT SOMEONE HAS PILED UP AND BUILT UP IN PRAYER, I HAVE A PLACE THERE AND HAVE YOU ENTERED INTO THE TREASURY OF SNOW WHICH I HAVE RESERVED, NOTICE WHAT IT'S FOR, FOR THE DAY OF TROUBLE, FOR THE DAY OF BATTLE. IT'S A METAPHOR ABOUT SNOW AND PRAYER. FOR JUST AS SNOW COLLECTS, ONE SINGLE SNOWFLAKE DOESN'T HAVE MUCH POWER. IF IT HITS THE ASPHALT OR HITS THE ROAD, THERE'S NO TRANSFER TRUCK THAT'S GOING TO BE DETERRED BY ONE SNOWFLAKE. BUT IF ENOUGH OF THEM GET TOGETHER AND STICK TOGETHER, THEY CAN CAUSE A BIG MAC TRUCK TO GO OFF OF A CLIFF. IT'S COLLECTIVE PRAYER. IT'S NOT JUST ONE, AND IT'S A LITTLE BITTY, TINY THING. YOU KNOW, A SNOWFLAKE, THIS IS A FACT, IT HAS SIX POINTS. IT IS THE STAR OF DAVID, PERFECTLY. EVERY SNOWFLAKE THAT FALLS FORMS THE STAR OF DAVID, LIKE ON THE ISRAELI FLAG. AND HE SAID, YOUR PRAYERS ARE LIKE SNOWFLAKES THAT COLLECTS AND STORES UP AND PILES UP. SNOW COLLECTS, AND IF ENOUGH OF THEM COLLECT, THEY BECOME MOUNTAIN PEAKS UP HIGH IN THE CLOUDS AND IN THE MOUNTAINS OF THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS. AND IT BUILDS A HUGE RESERVOIR. WHEN THE SEASON CHANGES, THE SNOW CHANGES, THE SNOW BEGINS TO MELT, AND SUDDENLY THAT

PART OF THE... life that was dried up, that was withered up, that there was no breakthroughs coming. If you have stored up enough snow, when the season changes and the river begins to flow down with life-giving water, it will hit your life only if you've been storing up in the treasury of snow. You have to understand that snow collects, snow joins together, it piles up, it gathers, and it starts as a small thing. And that's what I've been preaching and writing about, the power of short prayers. You just keep praying for those children, keep praying for that situation, keep praying for deliverance for someone that you love. And at first it just seems so far away, but every time you pray it, every time you ask God for it, don't get weary in doing right and doing good and prayer is doing good and labor, prayer is labor. But when you pray, keep doing it for you will reap if you faint not, storing up snow. And notice that the best climate for snow is cold, is the atmosphere of cold. And when things are cold and when things in the winter, the trees are dead and everything's dead, that's the time that is most conducive to storing up prayers. Nothing's happening, nothing's alive, it's cold, I'm in a spiritual winter,

it doesn't feel like anything's happening, that's when you store up snow. And God keeps up with every one of those snowflakes and one is joined to another and another. And in some cases, some of you are only here because a granny or somebody in your family, a mother, a father, they would not give up and even after they died, they had built a snow peak over your head. And when things were right and God knows when the timing is right, don't ever give up on anybody. I don't care how bad they look, I don't care how messed up, I don't care what kind of winter they're in and they're down to skin and bones, I will not give up praying, I will store up prayers for even generations to come because I know God says that's how my word will be, it will not return void. Every prayer matters, every prayer is a snowflake connected to another and sometimes for like in my family and in Cherise's family, for generations, I believe that many of the blessings that I walk in was piled up in prayer peaks, generations before I ever got here. If you don't have a collection of yet to be answered prayers, then you must not expect the flow in the river of God

that brings life to hit your life. You have to keep praying yet to be answered prayers and if they haven't happened yet, stack up some more, collect some more, send up some more, pray about it while you're driving, pray about it while you're doing the laundry, pray about it while you're going through the drive-thru, pray about it and keep storing it up, it's snow, it's the treasury, the scripture said. Job said, I found out something about God, I'm in a winter in my life, I've lost so much, he lost his health, his wealth, his children, he was devastated but he said, I've got a treasury of snow that's been stored up for the time of battle for the day of trouble. You know where rivers come from? They come from mountain peaks where snow is piled up and when the snow begins to melt, the river begins to flow. If there's no snow piled up, there'll be no river that flows, no snow, no flow. The more you snow and you send snowflakes of prayer up, just pray for that son, pray for that daughter. I told the Lord, I was praying for one of mine on the ride home and I said, how long, oh Lord? Because I'm believing for them to get a breakthrough, it's nothing bad, it's good but I said, how long, Lord? I just want you to know I'm gonna keep storing it up until avalanche on their life. I'm expecting to get a call any day, hallelujah.

I've been praying on that one for years. and years. That's why in 1st Thessalonians 5, in verse 16 and 17, it says rejoice always. Listen to this. And then he said pray without ceasing. Pray what keeps sending up snowflakes. Pray without ceasing. God give me a baby. Somebody wants to have a baby. God give me a baby. And people laugh at you. They laughed at Sarah. They laughed at Mary, the virgin. Oh, look at, look at, look. They laughed at Hannah. She couldn't have children. They laugh. Keep sending them up. You don't know what God can do. It is, we just, it doesn't hurt to ask. Just keep asking. It's never too late with God. Daniel, for 21 days in the Daniel chapter 10, he sent up snowflakes of fasting, snowflakes of prayer, snowflakes of God. You said in the prophecy and in your word that you would revisit the nation of Israel and it's not happening. And he didn't stop on the first day. He didn't stop on the 10th day. He didn't stop on the 20th day. God told him 21 days and he went 21 days. And on the 21st day, here comes, here comes the, the snow that's turned into a river and an angel of God stands and he says, I am, I have come to give you this word. And he began to tell him what God would do in his time and in his generation. I couldn't help but think about Cornelius in Acts chapter 10, who built a snow peak. He built a collective. The Bible said in Acts chapter 10, that he, that he built such a memorial before God, a snow peak, a glacier, a spiritual glacier. This is a man who was a Gentile. Jews only had been exposed to the power of the gospel, but this man watched from the outside. And at that time there was no Christian church. You and I Gentiles were shut out of the covenant. Here comes a Gentile man who does two things. Your prayers and your giving have come up as a memorial. You have created year after year praying, even though you didn't even know who you're praying to. You were praying for if there's any God out there, bless my family, bless my home. And as you, the angels comes and says, your prayers and your giving have come up in heaven. They burst through the, I'm going to preach it like I want to. It's my sermon. I can see them bursting through the streets of gold. Hallelujah. Coming up like a, like a memorial. Like you see in Washington DC, the Washington monument, boom. And all of a sudden God looks and he sees this memorial and God says, send Simon Peter to go to that man's house and preach and let salvation come to the Gentiles. Think of that. We are here today because a man named Cornelius started praying prayer after prayer after prayer,

and it formed a mountain peak, a snow peak. And when the snow started melting, it fell on his house. If you read the rest of that story, the Holy Spirit fell on his house and everyone that was in there when Simon Peter went and preached in that home, and I couldn't help but think, and even then that river that he started is still flowing at Free Chapel this Sunday morning and wherever you are at because of one man who kept praying short prayers that stacked up, that piled up. Hallelujah. What I'm saying to you is keep praying for your babies. Prayers never die. God puts them in veils. In the book of Revelation, he said in Revelation chapter five, that your prayers go into a golden veil. And when the, and when that vessel gets full, then an angel turns it over and there comes the pouring out. Some of you, the greatest, the greatest tragedy of prayerlessness is the unemployment of angels. Some of you have angels in heaven and they're sitting around doing nothing because you don't ever fill up the prayer bowls in heaven. But if you keep praying and you fill it up, God will tip it over and then the angels of the Lord come. Oh, that don't sound, I don't care if you believe it or not, I believe in the supernatural. And if you're going to win the battle in the heavenlies, you're going to have to store up some snow prayers. You're going to have to have the treasury of snow. The entire Gentile population owes a great gratitude to a man named Cornelius who just kept praying. We're still in the flow today from the power that he stored up in his prayers. In Psalms 147 in verse 15, it says, He sent forth His commandment upon the earth. He sent forth His commandment in verse 15 upon the earth. His word runs very swiftly. Watch. He gives snow like wool. He scatters the frost like ashes. He casts out His hail like morsels. And that hail is the frozen rain. He's doing a comparison of frozen things and prayers as snow. This is the great question. Who can stand before His cold?

Who can stand it long enough? Who will keep praying long enough that even though it's cold and it's not happening and it doesn't seem like I'm getting the breakthrough, but I'm not. Your prayers that are unanswered are — if God's not answering them now, you are storing up a mountain peak in that area that if you will keep praying, even God's will. That's something to pray constantly. It's something I pray every day of my life. Not my will. Thine be done. I go through the Lord's prayer. I go through all kinds of prayers in my prayer place. I love my prayer place. It's my favorite place on the earth. And I pray there every day. And I know, I know that He hears my prayers. Hallelujah. And He says, who can stand the cold? Who will not give up when things get cold spiritually? Who will not stop prematurely from asking because it didn't come in a day, a week, a month, a year, or 10 years? Who can stand the cold? If they'll just keep praying, if they'll just keep praising, if they'll just keep worshiping, if they'll just keep sanding on the Word. Store up for the cold season. When it gets cold, that's the time to store up. The greater the snow, the greater the flow. What would we do at Free Chapel if God decided that all the prayers of decades and generations, there's a mountain peak called the mountain peak for the last days. In the last days, saith God, the snow peak that even the prayers of the saints who have gone before us in heaven have been stored up waiting for this time.

Do you believe Jesus is coming again soon? Hallelujah. Somebody throw your hands up and shout about it just a minute. You feel like I have prayed about it and prayed about it and prayed about my family and prayed about this and prayed about that. Not one of those prayers has been wasted. It's been stacking up, piling up. Keep praying over that, son. Keep praying over that family. Keep praying over that marriage. Keep praying over that because the river is coming. A avalanche spiritually is hitting the world and He's going to pour out His Spirit on. And that's why we must be steadfast in prayer. I've done a lot of things wrong. But one thing I have always been consistent in is praying. Reach over and lay your hand on somebody's shoulder. Say in the name of Jesus, I speak life, I speak water, I speak the river to your dry spell, to the dry places where it seems like you're in a wilderness. The river's going to find you. It's going to find your children. It's going to find your family. In the name of Jesus, I speak life because the Bible said in that Ezekiel 47, in everything the river touches lives, lives, lives, lives. I speak life. I speak life to your career, to your business. I speak life to your properties. I speak life. I speak life to your homes, to your dreams. I speak life to the marriage that you don't have yet, but you want to be married. I speak life to that.

But you give up on that. Ask Him. Remind God of what He said. His word is like snow and when you send it out, it won't return void And you know when you won one that you ought to say a lot if you're single is you said put it back on him You said it's not good for man or woman to be alone. So Lord, I don't like it now if you like it Don't pray that just be happy all by yourself. That's great. And then God gives grace for that But but if you are not happy about it keep praying about it He's gonna come down the river on a canoe hallelujah smiling at you Hallelujah I Feel the Lord in this place. I've failed him all day long. I Feel like I could run through a troop and jump over a wall right now Does anybody feel victory not defeat not depression not discouragement The river is coming the river is coming