REASONS WHY WE MUST PRAY BY PASTOR PAUL RIKA

0:06 We pray. God wants us to pray. And what are the reasons why we must pray? He presents himself as the number one reason why we must pray. In Psalms 65 verse 2, it says, the Bible says, "Oh, thou that heareest prayer,

0:54 unto thee shall all flesh come." God is a God that answers prayers and that is why he wants us to come before him in prayer. He is the number one reason why we must pray. He loves it because he loves to answer prayers. When God wanted the peace of our nation, he called us into prayer. We prayed. He gave it to us.

1:40 The answering of prayers that God gives to us when we pray gives him joy and delight. Be it the prayer of congregation or the prayer of an individual, it could be the prayer of a family. God answers prayers. So because of him, because it interests him to hear prayers, you need to pray. Again, reasons why we must pray. Our call

2:26 by God demands it. The assignments that God has given to us, demand it. He has given you a call and it is by prayer you can run that call. He has given us as a ministry an assignment. It is by prayer we can run that assignment well for him. Isaiah chapter 6. Isaiah chapter 6. Verse

3:12 8. Also I heard the Lord I heard the voice of the Lord saying whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then said I here am I. Send me. God calls and you have answered the call. The how will you go? Prayer. How will you work out the call? How will you fulfill your calling? Prayer is essential. Reasons why we must pray for us in

3:59 holiness revival movement. He raised us up or raised up this movement to bring back the church to righteousness and holiness. To bring the true gospel to the world, the world of sinners. For this to be, we just have to pray. Our call demands it. Our assignment demands it again to supply our need

4:49 in life. We must pray to get our needs supplied. your need as an individual, our need as a church, your need as a family. To get that need supplied, to get those needs supplied, you must pray. Matthew chapter 7 verse 7- 11 the Bible says ask and it shall be given you

5:34 seek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that askketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knockketh it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you? Whom if his son asks bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your father which is in heaven give good things to them that

6:20 ask him. Can you see? He said, I know the thoughts I think toward you. Thought of peace and not of evil. to give you the desire of your heart, to give you a future, an unexpected end. You want to marry, you want to do this business, you want an open door, you want this, you want that. He said, I know it, but ask. So to get our needs met, we must pray. Now here is the conference coming up.

7:08 There are things we want to be done in this conference. We want the visitation of God. We want the presence of God. We want the power of God. We want the salvation of God. We want the miracles of God. We want people to come in mass to receive these things, these blessings from God. We want the supply of the things that are required to make this conference a success. Then we must pray. Then we must pray.

7:55 Reasons why we must pray. Reasons why you must pray. Are you not going to be in the conference yourself? Are you have you not invited people to come? Are you not bringing your children before the Lord? Will not your husband, your wife be available before the Lord in this conference? Have you not invited some friends, some neighbors, some relations to come in for this conference? You need to pray for them that they will enjoy these things before the Lord. They will enjoy divine touch. They will receive their miracle. Actually I was happy

8:43 when one of the our sister one of the sisters who came here from Kenya received her miracle during the minister's conference. I'd been dealing with this sister because she's now the one taking care of holiness movement in Kenya. I've been dealing with her maybe for the past I don't know whether it's up to four years or three years one of her ear was not hearing well was not hearing completely was deaf so even by phone she'll be shouting talking with her she has to balance up to the other ear to hear what you're

9:30 saying but during the minister's conference after prayers I saw her come in here. I said, "What has happened to this lady? Has God healed that ear?" And she gave a testimony that my ear had been has been healed. I was so happy because I knew her case. In the same way, you have people you want God to meet their needs, don't you? >> You may be one of them. You must pray. God, I am bringing people before you. I don't want them to go back emptyhanded. I don't want them to go back the way

10:16 they came. They were mocking before or they were crying of pain. I don't want them to come and go back. They had been serious sinners. I don't want them to come here and go back to shame. that will require prayer. reason why you must pray. Again in the book of Jeremiah chapter 33 verse 3, the Bible says Jeremiah 33 verse3 call upon me or call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not.

11:04 And the psalmist said, "Open my eyes that I might behold wondrous things out of thy lo." We need prayer for the revelation of God's word. Revelation of God's word because what interests people in the in preaching is revelation in the world. Otherwise the whole thing will look boring. So you need to pray God give revelation to this world. Let your word issue out with revelations to cause people

11:51 even the same the same verse they have been reading let it come up with richer meaning that they know that they knew before. Let the people receive the same scripture with rich meaning, spiritual wealth. Oh Lord, I want it myself. I want to see your word in another way, higher than I know. I want to go to another level in spiritual understanding. Another level in spiritual understanding. I want the people coming to really get this when we talk about oh holiness movement holiness movement

12:36 something we're just making a bust about it let them come and see reality let their ears tell them let their eyes tell them they before reality reasons why we must pray upon me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know. Great and mighty things which you do not know. again in Ephesians chapter 1.

13:22 Ephesians chapter 1, reasons why we must pray. From verse 15, Ephesians chapter 1, I read from verse 15 to 23. Wherefore I also after I had of your faith in the Lord Jesus and love unto all the saints cease not to give thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give unto you the know the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge

14:10 of him. the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that ye may know what is the hope of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the sense and what is the exent greatness of his power towards world who believe according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named not only in this world but also in that which is to come and had put all

14:56 things under his feet and giving him to be the head over all things to the church which is his body the fullness of him that filth all in all. Paul here said, "Efficient believers, when I heard that you have accepted Jesus, when I heard that you had believed the gospel, we preach the gospel of righteousness and holiness and are born again. I began to pray for you. You had just come to Christ as new believers. What am I praying? I am

15:41 praying that God, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of glory, may give unto you the inner knowing and assurance of himself. that these things that look darkly in the minds of people because it looks dark some people how Jesus where is Jesus how do I know him I pray that your heart inside might grow up to know him your heart inside might just understand him by the revelation of God

16:27 by the wisdom of God, you will know Jesus. >> You will know God. >> So that you won't doubt him. That God will answer all the questions of your mind about himself. You'll be ask your mind is asking questions about God. I pray that God will answer those questions and grant you satisfaction >> that Christianity will not be something of assumption but something real in your heart. Reasons why you should pray. You pray this for yourself. Oh God,

17:12 I am just walking in assumption. I want to see reality. I want to know you. I want to be assured of you. I want to know that I am serving the Lord. I want to be convinced of you so that I will not be dancing to and fro. I will not be falling and rising just because I'm confused. Is God going to help me? Is God going to be there? Is God going to do this? I want to know you well. That's when you must pray. We pray endlessly. Now here is conference. Oh Lord, these people are coming to your presence and reveal

17:59 yourself that they may know Jesus that they understanding their understanding may be enlightened. Grant them to understand what it means by forsaking the world. Grant them to understand what it means. Oh Lord, by your name is in heaven. You are going to heaven. They may not understand this thing well. They may not value this thing well. Oh God, open their understanding that they will perceive these things and be assured of it. Let them know the superior power that is in Christ Jesus. Many of them have been used to the power

18:45 of Satan. They have been used to charm. Some they know how to vanish and appear there. They know how to do this. Some have already been tra are used to being threatened by power of witchcraft. I'll kill you. I'll poison you. I'll do this. cause them to come and know that there is superior power in Christ. Let them be so filled with that assurance, with that understanding that they will not be confused in life. Reasons why we must pray. And God is a God that answers prayers. Call on to me,

19:30 I will answer you. Oh thou that heareest prayers, unto thee shall all flesh come, come and say these things like that before the Lord so that he would do them. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you might know the hope of your calling. You're losing many things in this life, in this world. Some of you have not married. Some of you have not you couldn't make advancement to school and so on and so forth. And you look little in this world but you are zealous for God.

20:15 Oh that God will give you the the reward show you the reward of your service. what it means by the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus that God will show you what he has kept in store for your life. Pray then you will be at peace. It's just like Elisha prayed to God when his servant was afraid. Oh my master, alas, my master. See the chariots of um see the enemies surrounding us upon the mountains. He said they that be with us are more than they that be with them.

21:02 Oh Lord open his eyes that he might see. And when the L the Lord answers prayers will he open the eyes of that servant he saw. Was he agitated again? He became peaceful. Oh, pray for your wife. Oh Lord, open her eyes that she might see so that all those careless talk against you because you serve the Lord. Say you wasted your time. You wasted your your colleagues are like this now. Your friends have done this and done that. You just wasted your energy. Oh God, open her eyes that she

21:47 might see your husband. Oh Lord, open his eyes that he might see is dangling on this matter. Oh the Christian dressing that you have removed earrings, you have done this. He has not understood. Pray for the eye of the understanding to be opened. Reasons why you must pray. See also in Philippians reasons why you have to go before the Lord and call upon him. Verse nine.

22:33 And this I pray that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment, that ye may approve things that are excellent, that ye may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. I am praying that your Christian character might shine, that you will manifest and demonstrate the true Christian virtues,

23:20 that people will see and give praise to the God of heaven. You will be full of good works. Ask God for it. Ask God for all our members that they will be full of good works. Pray also that people who come into our midst will discover the excellency of this ministry because there still there are people who can come and say I've been there. What did I what is different? What is different from our church? Pray that they will see the difference when they hear the messages. When they see the worship, when they see all that is going on, the orderliness, pray that

24:06 they will see the difference. For the queen of Sheba said, I see the difference. The half of your wisdom was not told me. It's it's prayer that can do that. prayer. Pray that the people will be established in these doctrines. Yes, the people will be established. Our brothers, our sisters should not backslide. They should not backslide. They should not turn off. I heard the story recently of one of the pastors and chapter leaders that called a sister into his house. It's a terrible

24:54 thing. And said, "Bring your Bible." He bring the she brought the Bible innocently into the into his parlor open to Job chapter what read the thing that has uh that I I greatly feared has come upon me. Yes. Today all the immorality you have been avoiding you will get it today. Can you see that? And the man is in police station now. Pray that this type of thing should not happen. It's the devil that wants to spoil the name of this movement and cause this type of thing to be happening. Pray

25:40 that rather our bre will be established in righteousness. They will be established in holiness. Again in the book of Joel chapter 2. Joel chapter 2. The Bible tells us in verse 16 to 20 to 20, "Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breast. Let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Let the the priests, the

26:28 ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, "Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the hidden should rule over them. Wherefore should they say among the people, where is their God?" Then will the Lord be jealous for his land and pity his people. Yeah. The Lord will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn and wine and oil, and ye shall be satisfied there with, and I will no more make you a reproach among the hidden. But I will remove far from far up from you the northern army and will

27:15 drive him into the land into a land barren and desolate with his face toward the east sea and his hinter toward the utmost sea and his stink shall come up and his ill shall come up because he had done great things. See here prayer reasons why we must pray. I was listening to radio is it yesterday that a particular lecturer in LA was bent on committing immorality with the with the women in his class before he passed them in the examination.

28:01 Whether you are people, you are somebody's wife or no, you have to submit to him. And they lecturers like that. They're lecturers like that. Every woman that passes through him, he must you must sleep with them before he passes you. Now pray that God will chisel these people out of life. chisel these people out of the way of his people because they are agents of decay, agents of defilement, agents, agents blocking the success and

28:46 advancement of his people. Call upon me, I will draw away the northern army from you. There are people who are there in the offices who will never allow the promotion of the children of God. A sister was telling me for 15 years she remained in the same level six even with degree. You see they go for promotion they will not promote promote her. Why? She won't do like other people. BUT CALL UPON THE LORD. There's a God that answers prayers. Let's pray to this God for our people in the government in the respective places. The Lord will show them favor.

29:32 The Lord will fight against their enemies. >> They arrested that lecturer and that lecturer now is maybe he's in prison or what his case is under police custody whatever. So the law will know how to handle those things. Why are we keeping quiet? And the devil is having ascendancy among us. The devil is sponsoring people to to to defy the the the name of the Lord among us. No prayer. Call upon me. He said pray then the Lord will rise up for his people. Then the Lord will rise up for his people. There are people who are sent in

30:19 who are sent into the church to cause every kind of atrocity. As long as they are here, they will not allow people to marry. They will not allow people who marry to have children. They will be spreading some sicknesses among the people. They will be causing family problem. They will be causing this backsliding. They will be doing every type of evil. That's their own work. Call upon me. The Lord said call upon me. Call upon him. He will handle those people. >> You who have not married because the devil has blocked it. You will find yourself marrying. >> You will find yourself making progress. >> Call upon God. Reasons why we must pray as a church,

31:05 as an individual, as a family. the devil, the northern army, the northern army, all these issues of boo haram. Get them into prayer. You will see the difference. We call upon the Lord for the the power oppressive power of the of of of Islamic religion over this country. I am telling you that matter has settled. >> You will see peace. Why prayer? Did we use weapons? >> Did we use gun? >> We prayed to God. He who knows how to do. Is he not a demon? He knows how to handle the demon. Jesus rose up and said, "Peace be

31:53 still." And there was a great calm over the sea. And the people continue their journey. Call upon the Lord. All these activities, activities of witchcraft in the zones, in the states, in the nations, against the church, they will be arrested. I'm telling you, cry, spare your people, oh Lord. Give not your heritage to reproach. Reasons why we must pray. Reasons why we

32:38 must pray again our persecutors in Acts of Apostles chapter 4. Acts of Apostles chapter 4 from verse 23. The Bible tells us to 32. And being let go, they went to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them. And when they had they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God

33:25 with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which has made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is, who by the mouth of thy servant David has said, Where did the hidden rage? And the people imagine vent things. The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ. For if for truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed both Herod and Ponteus Pilate, with the Gentiles, and

34:12 the people of Israel were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy council determined before to be done. And now, Lord, behold their threatenings, and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, by stretching forth thine hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they they spake the word of God with boldness. And verse 32, and the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul, neither said

34:59 any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things common. Can you see persecution rose up against the church to deter the church to scatter the church to weaken the church and the people prayed is prayer. The people prayed reasons why we must pray and see the request they made and God answered them. The church multiplied. There was great power among them. And the people were united. Miracles of all kinds. Signs and wonders

35:47 were done among them. We must pray. I say we must pray. >> See the persecutions that have have arisen against us in every quarter. See how much they despise us. See how much they oppress. See how much they speak against us. The internet has suffered a lot because of holiness revival movement and her leadership. They say every kind of things they will say and you think that it may not affect people. It affects some people because some believe it in as much as we

36:33 will not reply those people. We leave them to God. But we must pray against their work. We must ask God to rebuke them. We must ask God to silence them. We must also ask God to cause those who hear them not to believe them so that they will they will come in and receive this blessing the Lord is giving the world. We must pray. Some of these people come from some churches into holiness movement. They are disciplined by their churches. Their churches say many kinds of evils against holiness movement. Is this movement of man

37:18 Is it not of God? Are we not truly achieving something for God? But why are people why have people risen up against it? We must commit them to God in prayer. We must ask God to intervene that he should give courage to those people he has brought in that they will not become general superintendent, general overseer, our pastor, our this but they should not leave this place leave a a a treacherous place like this and go because of those things. When the Lord brought all these blessings of revelations and the many of them were saved through these revelations but

38:04 because their pastor commanded that the CD should be burned. All this BOOK BURN THEM BURN THEM. Many of them went to burn these books. We want to pray that God should make the voice of their leaders not to have authority over their members because they are not speaking in line with scripture. Amen. >> Amen. It is prayer that should do this. Reasons why we must pray. We must pray that the church should remain united. See now what is what was the result of their prayer? The church was united leaders. There was no struggle among the leadership. People didn't rise up against the mean

38:51 leader and say no no no we can't take it again. No, no, no, no, no. If anybody rush up, he didn't have followership. So, one firewood cannot burn long. Why? He didn't have the cooperation of others. So, we have to pray that there should be unity among us. Unity among the brethren. So, we have so many reasons to pray. We need to pray because of the grace of God. We need grace for this work. As I've told you already, we need resources for this work. We have to pray that God will not allow sin to multiply among us.

39:38 The Lord will sanctify the church, cleanse the church, strengthen the church. We have to pray that the Lord will pour down his spirit upon us upon the work we do. The Lord should send revival upon us and through us also to others and to the whole world. We need to pray. These are few things I've highlighted. As for the need of prayers, there are many. Main ought always to pray and that is why we have come here to call upon the Lord so that God will do great and

40:23 mighty things for us in Jesus name. >> Strengthen yourself. Strengthen yourself to do this prayer. Strengthen yourself. Don't give yourself to sleep. See how wide the place is for you to walk in, walk up and down in prayer. And may the Lord strengthen you. Let's rise up upon our feet to go before the Lord in prayer. Send down thy power. Send down thy Holy Ghost.

41:10 Jehovah send down thy power. >> We want revival. >> Our father we want to pray well. Lord Jesus, take away sleep from our eyes. Father, send down thy Holy Ghost. >> Send down thy power.

41:56 Father, we want to pray to you and so bless our prayers. We pray thee, oh Lord. We say we praise thee, oh Lord.

42:43 Oh Lord, we say amen. Okay. Amen. Send down your power. >> Amen. Amen. >> Send down anointing. >> Amen.

43:31 >> Send down the Holy Ghost. Amen. We praise thee, oh Lord. We say amen. Send down your power. We praise thee, oh Lord. We say it send down anointing.

44:17 Amen. I've not heard your voice. We pray thee, oh Lord. We are inviting the Holy Ghost down. Shout it louder. We pray thee, oh Lord. Jesus is in our midst. I say send down your power. Amen.

45:03 Now, let's turn it into prayer. We need the power of the Holy Ghost at this hour. Let's turn it into prayer.