Many believers are in darkness and in defeat in constant insecurity, because they have
never learned to pray.
They don't know what it means to spend time on their knees and to pray until the light
breaks through, until they get into the presence of God and until they are strengthened so
that they can overcome.
You need to learn to pray UNTIL YOU KNOW THAT YOU HAVE GOT THROUGH TO GOD that you have
received power to carry on!
You need to pray as Jesus prayed in the garden of Gethsemane He knew what was awaiting Him,
He knew that He would be betrayed and He went and He prayed for strength from His Father.
I read from Luke 22:39 (NAS) “And He came out and proceeded as was His custom to the
Mount of Olives; and the disciples also followed Him.
When He arrived at the place, He said to them, “Pray that you do not enter into temptation.”
And He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and began to pray,
saying, “Father, if Thou art willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Thine
be done.”
Now an angel from heaven appeared to Him, strengthening Him And being in agony He was
praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the
ground.
When He rose from prayer, He came to the disciples and found them sleeping from sorrow, and said
to them, “Why are you sleeping?
Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
We see here that Jesus was used to go and pray at that spot, as it was His custom we
read in verse 39.
Dear friend, if you are not accustomed to praying you will not have the strength to
overcome If you fall asleep, you will not pray through.
You have to pray through into the presence of God,
until you KNOW!
Many people have not prayed through yet.
They have got no relationship with Jesus They haven't prayed through into the holy of holies
into the presence of God!
They haven't gone into GROANING, where they had no more words to speak, but where their
spirit started crying out to God and when God strengthened them and put
His Holy Spirit in them, so that the Spirit of God can pray through them groanings above
utterance.
Because the Spirit of God knows what we need, but if we do not go and spend that time in
the presence of God and PRAY, TARRY in His presence and labor in prayer, and cry out
to Him, we will not receive the power to overcome.
That is why so many Christians are so insecure.
They need a "pat on the back" from other people.
You will not overcome, dear friend, unless you pray through and get into the presence
of God.
But if you have sin in your life and if you are not dedicated to Jesus; if you are not
submitted to the Holy Spirit YOU WILL FIRST HAVE TO REPENT and get rid of your sin BEFORE
you can come through into the presence of God.
Then you will have the power to overcome, then you will not be shaken it wouldn't matter
what people say to you, because you will KNOW, THAT YOU KNOW, THAT YOU KNOW, that God has
spoken to you.
There is only one way, dear friend; you have got to do as Jesus did, you must PRAY, UNTIL
YOU KNOW!
You must pray UNTIL you get through into the presence of God and then an angel will come
and strengthen you.
The power of God will come on you you will be transformed, and you come out of there,
out of the prayer closet, a different man and woman, full of the power of the Holy Spirit.
And you will go out in His power and do the will of God!
You will overcome temptation.
That is why Christians can not stop sinning, that is why they cannot overcome, because
they are not praying; but they are not praying because they have not repented of their sin.
You must pray until you get through into the presence of God.
You have got to labor in prayer dear friend, UNTIL YOU GET AN ANSWER!
You will get an answer, if you really want an answer, but you have to GRAB HOLD OF GOD
YOU HAVE GOT TO WAIT AND TARRY THERE.
YOU HAVE GOT TO SHOW HIM THAT YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT HEARING FROM HIM, and then you WILL
hear from Him.
May Jesus bless you.