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This is the first principle of Religion, so listen closely. Jesus said My House, my Father’s House shall be
called a House of Prayer. The atmosphere of My Father’s House is supposed to be prayer. The atmosphere around
the things of My Father must be that aroma of people opening their hearts and coming to my Father in worship
and in partition and supplication.
My House shall be called a house of Prayer, the thing that is supposed to distinguish Christian Churches and
Christian people and Christian gatherings, is the aroma and the atmosphere, of prayer.
So the Bible tells us that when Jesus Christ died, resurrected, and went back to heaven and He began His church,
which the gates of hell shall not prevail against. He kept the same line running through the formation of the
church, which was in His Father’s House.
Have you ever noticed that the Christian Church was not born while someone was preaching, but while people were
praying? Have you ever noticed that in the second chapter of the book of Acts, when the Church was born, they
were doing nothing, just waiting on God and praying? And they were just sitting there as they were praying,
and worshiping and waiting and having heart communion with God. And God was shaping them and cleansing them
out and doing those heart operations that only the Holy Spirit can do, the Church was born, the Spirit was poured
out. My House shall be called a House of prayer. In the 4th Chapter, Peter and John are arrested, and they are
slapped around and threatened, don’t you preach anymore in that name. And what do they do? They don’t go and
protest, they don’t go to court, they don’t try to get some political leverage, and they went back to a prayer
meeting. They went back and said OH God, look how there’re threating us, but Oh God we lift our voices together
to you, Oh God behold their threats and give your servants boldness that we might preach in the name of Jesus.
And the place where they prayed was again shaken, and they all were filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the
Word of God with boldness. My House Shall be called a House of Prayer. They had this instinct that when in trouble
pray, when intimidated pray, when challenged pray, when persecuted pray.
In fact this thing called prayer, whatever it is, is so unique, you know we talk about pray, say prayers, most
of them are mental prayers, this thing called praying is so deep that when the apostle Paul got converted, and
he was first Saul of Tarsus this violent persecutor of the Church. Jesus went to Ananias and the Lord appeared
to Ananias in Damascus, and said go to this man, this Jew, this Church persecutor named Saul of Tarsus and pray
for him. And Ananias said I know about this man, this man is trouble with a capital T, and Jesus says, as if this
was proof, that everything had changed, no Ananias, you can go for behold, he prays. You can go now because he is
in that room blind, waiting for you because he actually for the first time in his religious life is offering a
true prayer. And because he’s praying you can go and not be afraid, as if that was the sign if somebody was the
real deal with God. Behold he prays. And that same apostle Paul when he writes to Timothy, and he wants to
encourage him how to do God’s work, he says this, first of all then I want supplications. First of all, in your
Church Timothy, first of all, before anything else supplications, and prayer, and intercession, and thanksgiving
to be made for all men, that’s first of all, it doesn’t matter what your tradition is, or modern Christianity
says. The Word of God says, first of all, then I want supplications, because we got to remember Timothy, My House
shall be called a House of Prayer. And later on in the same chapter he says remember Timothy I want men everywhere
to lift up holy hands, without wrath and doubting, and I want them to pray. That’s the sign of a Christian
Church, Paul says men praying with holy hands, without wrath and doubting. In fact the Book of Revelations says,
that when the 4 and twenty elders fall at the feet of Jesus, they have these golden bowls. And you know what’s
in the bowls? This incense that is so fragrant to Christ, it’s the prayers of the saints. I mean what must prayer
mean to God that He keeps it in bowls. Just imagine that when you or I kneel or stand or pray seated, and we
really open our hearts to God. Somehow those things are kept. They are so precious to God, My House Shall be
Called a House of Prayer.
And we have in the day that we live in allot of revisionism going on, but it’s not coming for the Church
Conferences, or Government, it’s coming from the Church. We are revising what a Church is today, the Bible says
and they continued, this early Church they continued steadfastly in the Apostles Doctrine, and in fellowship
and in the breaking of bread and in prayer. Now we have revised that and said, if you can get people for one
hour on Sunday morning in a building, that’s the Church, that’s not the Church. We can use every device we want
to get people for one hour, and keep it early, and keep it moving, and keep it going, because people have
important things to do that day. That’s not the story of the Christian Church, that might be the story of
this Church, but that’s not the Church Jesus built. In the history of revivals down through the ages have
taught us that whenever things have grown craze, commercial, secular and hard and worldly, God sends a revival.
And what’s always the sign of a revival? Behold, they pray, the Church begins to pray. Moody goes somewhere
in England, and they begin to pray. Finney goes to upstate New York, and they begin to pray. The great awaking
happens in America, and they begin to pray, who was the fancy preacher? Nobody, they prayed. Where was the
great music, awe they made great psalms, but that was not the great thing about it, they prayed. Prayer preceded
it, prayer kept it going, and the minute prayer ended, the Spirit of God lifted and we got back into tough times
for the Church of Jesus Christ.
The greatest thing anybody can learn in this world is how to pray. How to call on God so that God intervenes
in a situation. They continued steadfastly in the Apostles Doctrine, and in fellowship and in the breaking
of bread and in prayer, and that is the Church.
It’s an awesome thing, just an awesome thought, that we have created a religion of our own and sometimes His
House Shall be Called a House of Prayer, in allot of Churches and in allot of services you have everything
but prayer. If it does not end up with somebody touching God and praying who are kidding? We need the Lord.
What are we going to do, continue living in this Christian fantasy, about what God once did, and what Gods
going to do, but then our lives go by and we never see God do anything? I mean your life passes by with that
kind of talk; remember the worst epitaph on anybody’s tombstone will be this: You had not, because you asked not.
Now everybody says Brother Jerry, you can’t get everything we ask for because it has to be Gods will. I understand
all of that, but we can’t use little theological dodges to get away from the fact that allot of people don’t
have what God wants us to have right now today, he wants you to have it right now today but over your life or
my life he writes, he has not because he asked not. God has chosen prayer to be the one conductor, listen, the
one conductor, the one channel for all of God’s blessings, the channel is prayer.
called a House of Prayer. The atmosphere of My Father’s House is supposed to be prayer. The atmosphere around
the things of My Father must be that aroma of people opening their hearts and coming to my Father in worship
and in partition and supplication.
My House shall be called a house of Prayer, the thing that is supposed to distinguish Christian Churches and
Christian people and Christian gatherings, is the aroma and the atmosphere, of prayer.
So the Bible tells us that when Jesus Christ died, resurrected, and went back to heaven and He began His church,
which the gates of hell shall not prevail against. He kept the same line running through the formation of the
church, which was in His Father’s House.
Have you ever noticed that the Christian Church was not born while someone was preaching, but while people were
praying? Have you ever noticed that in the second chapter of the book of Acts, when the Church was born, they
were doing nothing, just waiting on God and praying? And they were just sitting there as they were praying,
and worshiping and waiting and having heart communion with God. And God was shaping them and cleansing them
out and doing those heart operations that only the Holy Spirit can do, the Church was born, the Spirit was poured
out. My House shall be called a House of prayer. In the 4th Chapter, Peter and John are arrested, and they are
slapped around and threatened, don’t you preach anymore in that name. And what do they do? They don’t go and
protest, they don’t go to court, they don’t try to get some political leverage, and they went back to a prayer
meeting. They went back and said OH God, look how there’re threating us, but Oh God we lift our voices together
to you, Oh God behold their threats and give your servants boldness that we might preach in the name of Jesus.
And the place where they prayed was again shaken, and they all were filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the
Word of God with boldness. My House Shall be called a House of Prayer. They had this instinct that when in trouble
pray, when intimidated pray, when challenged pray, when persecuted pray.
In fact this thing called prayer, whatever it is, is so unique, you know we talk about pray, say prayers, most
of them are mental prayers, this thing called praying is so deep that when the apostle Paul got converted, and
he was first Saul of Tarsus this violent persecutor of the Church. Jesus went to Ananias and the Lord appeared
to Ananias in Damascus, and said go to this man, this Jew, this Church persecutor named Saul of Tarsus and pray
for him. And Ananias said I know about this man, this man is trouble with a capital T, and Jesus says, as if this
was proof, that everything had changed, no Ananias, you can go for behold, he prays. You can go now because he is
in that room blind, waiting for you because he actually for the first time in his religious life is offering a
true prayer. And because he’s praying you can go and not be afraid, as if that was the sign if somebody was the
real deal with God. Behold he prays. And that same apostle Paul when he writes to Timothy, and he wants to
encourage him how to do God’s work, he says this, first of all then I want supplications. First of all, in your
Church Timothy, first of all, before anything else supplications, and prayer, and intercession, and thanksgiving
to be made for all men, that’s first of all, it doesn’t matter what your tradition is, or modern Christianity
says. The Word of God says, first of all, then I want supplications, because we got to remember Timothy, My House
shall be called a House of Prayer. And later on in the same chapter he says remember Timothy I want men everywhere
to lift up holy hands, without wrath and doubting, and I want them to pray. That’s the sign of a Christian
Church, Paul says men praying with holy hands, without wrath and doubting. In fact the Book of Revelations says,
that when the 4 and twenty elders fall at the feet of Jesus, they have these golden bowls. And you know what’s
in the bowls? This incense that is so fragrant to Christ, it’s the prayers of the saints. I mean what must prayer
mean to God that He keeps it in bowls. Just imagine that when you or I kneel or stand or pray seated, and we
really open our hearts to God. Somehow those things are kept. They are so precious to God, My House Shall be
Called a House of Prayer.
And we have in the day that we live in allot of revisionism going on, but it’s not coming for the Church
Conferences, or Government, it’s coming from the Church. We are revising what a Church is today, the Bible says
and they continued, this early Church they continued steadfastly in the Apostles Doctrine, and in fellowship
and in the breaking of bread and in prayer. Now we have revised that and said, if you can get people for one
hour on Sunday morning in a building, that’s the Church, that’s not the Church. We can use every device we want
to get people for one hour, and keep it early, and keep it moving, and keep it going, because people have
important things to do that day. That’s not the story of the Christian Church, that might be the story of
this Church, but that’s not the Church Jesus built. In the history of revivals down through the ages have
taught us that whenever things have grown craze, commercial, secular and hard and worldly, God sends a revival.
And what’s always the sign of a revival? Behold, they pray, the Church begins to pray. Moody goes somewhere
in England, and they begin to pray. Finney goes to upstate New York, and they begin to pray. The great awaking
happens in America, and they begin to pray, who was the fancy preacher? Nobody, they prayed. Where was the
great music, awe they made great psalms, but that was not the great thing about it, they prayed. Prayer preceded
it, prayer kept it going, and the minute prayer ended, the Spirit of God lifted and we got back into tough times
for the Church of Jesus Christ.
The greatest thing anybody can learn in this world is how to pray. How to call on God so that God intervenes
in a situation. They continued steadfastly in the Apostles Doctrine, and in fellowship and in the breaking
of bread and in prayer, and that is the Church.
It’s an awesome thing, just an awesome thought, that we have created a religion of our own and sometimes His
House Shall be Called a House of Prayer, in allot of Churches and in allot of services you have everything
but prayer. If it does not end up with somebody touching God and praying who are kidding? We need the Lord.
What are we going to do, continue living in this Christian fantasy, about what God once did, and what Gods
going to do, but then our lives go by and we never see God do anything? I mean your life passes by with that
kind of talk; remember the worst epitaph on anybody’s tombstone will be this: You had not, because you asked not.
Now everybody says Brother Jerry, you can’t get everything we ask for because it has to be Gods will. I understand
all of that, but we can’t use little theological dodges to get away from the fact that allot of people don’t
have what God wants us to have right now today, he wants you to have it right now today but over your life or
my life he writes, he has not because he asked not. God has chosen prayer to be the one conductor, listen, the
one conductor, the one channel for all of God’s blessings, the channel is prayer.