welcome to Raised to deliver podcast episode 28
I'm your host Vladimir Savchuk
and today I would like to talk about something that
so many people especially out side of the United States practice regularly
but I think it's a little taboo or distant subject here
in the United States but I believe this has a tremendous power in your Christian life
I would like to talk about all night prayer
now we know that we can pray to God in the morning during the day at lunch anytime
we can call upon him in distress
the bible says in everything by prayer and supplication make your requests known to God
and so but I want to look at for example few people and one of them particularly is Jesus
how he would have early morning prayers
in the previous episodes I've talked about the 5 reasons or few reasons to have early morning prayer
but today I would like to encourage you and throw you a challenge
I know there are some people who really want to go after God
that to experiment this in your relationship with God
to spend an all night in prayer
now is there some magic to it? I dont believe so
but there's a reason why the fastest growing churches in the world where the Lord is moving mightily
in Korea in Colombia in Africa even in former Soviet Union territories
that believers especially Christians in churches have all night Friday night vigils
or we call them all night prayer meetings
and it results in a very big shift in the spiritual environment in their city
in their region and as well in their churches
a lot of demonic activity happens after midnight
and a lot of sinful activities happen after midnight
you know a lot of people especially Christians and you probably have done that I know I have
where sometimes you found a tv show you know you're very committed to finishing it
and you watched it all through all the way till the morning
and nobody thought that's weird you know you just finished the tv show
even though you were tired probably was dozing off but you kept yourself strong and you finished it
you know the Lord wants us to have a passion for his presence
and to be radical in the pursuit of Him
especially with all night prayer meetings
now church is supposed to be a house of prayer
church is not a house of entertainment it's not even a house of preaching
even though the preaching of God's word is vital
it's not a house of worship even though that's what we do we gather to worship our king
it's not about kids ministry even though the ministry to children is very important
but it's foremost and first has to be a house of prayer
that means there has to be prayer offered constantly in the church
not only in our services but outside of our services
one of the things the Lord promised me is that if you will make it a house of prayer
I will draw the nations to the local church where you pastor
you know when I was younger
I had this almost like a vision it kind of pulled me into ministry at the age of 16
where I was in the parking lot of winco grocery store
and I was very discouraged it was 6 months of being for me being a youth pastor
I was about to quit and give up
and my parents at the time came and picked us up from the youth service
I was the youth leader but my parents picked me up yeah I had my own personal chaffeurs
my parents I guess
so they went to the grocery store and I stayed in the van
Chrysler red color I can see the mental picture right now
I'm sitting there in the shotgun seat
and all of my siblings and half of our youth group which was my siblings went to the store to get some groceries
and I was sitting there really just discouraged
wanting to give up I didn't speak well English
I wanted to throw the towel
and I really felt the Holy Spirit I would say this was one of the first times that I heard a very clear voice from God
he said look at the store
and as I saw people walking into the store many people walking
empty and walking out with grocery carts filled with a lot of groceries
and I felt like this inner knowing but it was as clear as a day
if you don't quit
a time is coming where I will build the church and hungry people will come
they will leave filled they will leave healed
saved and delivered
as I looked at that store I saw this beautiful shiny door in the front
and the Lord reminded me that the church is going to be glorious
beautiful and excellent
but that building the grocery store had also the back doors
where the semi trucks would come those doors did not look as clean
they were not automated they did not look as bright
they did not look as appealing but without the back doors
though which the semi trucks came with loads of food
to the store the front doors would never be opened
because nobody would come to the store that had empty shelves
and I really saw at that age a picture of what the church supposed to be
front doors it's our programs it's our processes
it's our systems it's our structure
it's our social media it's our excellence it's our music
it's our preaching you know all of that is attractive all of that is inviting all of that has to be excellent
but the back door of our ministries
they might be a little bit dark they might be a little bit not as attractive metal rusty
but they're the ones that open the windows of heaven
these back doors they speak of prayer and they speak of fasting
they speak of our radical consecration to God
it's good that we pray monthly or maybe weekly I don't know how your church does
it's good that we individually pray you know daily to the Lord and keep our time with God
but today I want to present this radical big door
that I believe can be a key to spiritual breakthrough in your ministry
all night prayer meeting
in Luke chapter 6 verse 12
Jesus prayed all night
now he didn't pray all night every night
many times he would go early in the morning and spend time with his Father
but this particular time he spent all night in prayer
and early in the morning the scripture says he chose his disciples
he lay hands on the sick cast out devils
and the scripture says the power went out from Him to heal the sick
now Jesus is the son of God
if there was anyone who did not need to spend time all night in prayer probably would be Jesus
Jesus was busy he had big crowds follow him
he was occupied he had a packed schedule
he didn't have time to spend all night in prayer
but see you must understand prayer doesn't take time
prayer saves time
when he came down from that all night prayer
he came with that revelation of who he should chose to be his followers
he came with that fresh anointing to heal the sick
and to move in power
I believe a lot of us as pastors as leaders as ministers as Christians
sometimes are burned out because we need to delegate we need to find the right people in our life
and the Lord wants to connect you to the right people
and you need to lay yourself before the lord
and give him that night
there's another instance where Jesus when multiplying the bread
which was a very big miracle
people were so blessed by it people were fed by it
Jesus tells his disciples to get ahead of him
and to go on the other side
and he dismissed the crowd and you would think this would be a good moment for Jesus to rent a hotel nearby
and just get some sleep because he just spent 3 days with this crowd and his disciples
and the scripture says he goes up to the mountain
and spends a night in prayer to his father
I'm like Jesus this is just a crazy miracle go get some rest relax
instead he spends all night with the father
in fact it was at that point he saw his disciples struggling in their boat on the sea
and guess what he did he came to them walking on water
so Jesus came walking on water after he spent all night in prayer with his father
I really believe there is a key that is released this power
of walking on the things that people are struggling in
when we spend quality time with our father especially in an all night prayer meeting
I'm not saying this is a rule this is just a principle I'm sharing with you
there was another time that Jesus goes up to the mountain
on the mountain of Transfiguration and the scripture says that he came the next day
to his disciples
that pretty much speaks of all day and probably night that was spent communicating and praying to his heavenly father
during his prayer time his disciples of course they fell asleep
Moses and Elijah appeared and great glory of God surfaced ther
and so there is this key that I would like to encourage you with
see if it can fit into your lock and into your situation
take that time I'm pretty sure you've stayed up pulled an all nighter
with your friends pulled an all nighter and watched a movie or pulled an all nighter and played games
and just had a good time what if you pulled an all nighter and spent time with the Holy Spirit
and just you and the Holy Spirit pulled an all nighter
there's no magic in that except that God sees that you're willing to forego sleep
for that time to be with him
you know Jacob he sent his wives
flock ahead of him when he heard that his brother was coming at him
he was very scared of his brother
he was intimidated to see him because of the way he left his brother many years prior to that
and the scripture says Jacob was left alone
and he spent that night wrestling with God with an angel of the Lord
in face he was so persistant in his prayer
during that all night that the angel of the Lord asked him
please let me go
it's like angel is asking Jacob let me go please before the day breaks
meaning let me go before the sunrise
and Jacob says I will not let you go until you bless me
I believe God wants to release something in our spiritual life
but we have to have tenacious persistant passionate pursuit after his presence
you know when we were teenagers I heard of ministers that I followed from other countries
that would pray all night especially on Fridays
I dont know why Fridays but it was like this thing that you know people did in Korea in Ukraine and other places
and me and my cousin Ilya we would actually break into an American church to pray
all night on Fridays
we didn't have keys to that church but we rented that church so we would leave one of the windows open and just break in during the night
to spend you know 5 6 7 hours in prayer 17 18 years of age
and then when we got our own building that passion kind of faded away
started to pray but it wasn't that consistent
and honestly just recently the Lord is bringing that back
even to our church and it's such a beautiful experience
of spending extended time with the Lord where you're not in a hurry
where you're not there just to go through your list you're not there for a checkmark you're there to be with him
you're there to be saturated with him
you're there to experience his love
and like waves of his power begin to flow through you and on you
when you spend time with him
so I want to encourage you pull an all nighter
with the Holy Spirit
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