Jeremiah 15:1 “Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.”
Pastor Kim asks the listeners to turn there, and then he wants them to watch his other YouTube video, The Power to Get Your Prayers Answered or the article. So he is not going to go through all those things in this video. Instead, in this video, he is going to give a more intimate connection with self and prayer.
This is very important: you define prayer, and prayer defines you.
Your very existence should be because of prayer.
What does Pastor Kim mean by that? Prayer should be so close in your life that we mistake it as a part of you. So your middle name should be prayer.
If your name is Gene Kim, who do we identify mostly with you? Most of the time, it’s flesh.
This is the number one hindrance to the power of prayer: yourself. Self is the greatest enemy that hinders the power and the effect of prayer.
Now think about this. If we were to mention Gene Kim or any individual in this room, what do people identify you as? The things of your flesh.
The one who makes a big deal out of sin more than people is God.
What identifies as you?
Is it flesh, or is it prayer?
Read about all the prayer warriors today. It doesn’t matter what denomination they are or what wrong doctrine they have. These authors and preachers are widespread, that Bible believers in any different denomination can listen to these people because there’s one thing in common that nearly every denomination has, and that’s the power of prayer.
E. M. Bounds’ book on prayer – if you just read one page out of that book, you can tell this guy, his language, his very communication in language, is prayer.
If some of you met Chuck, a church member, the way that he talks is not like a normal person. The way that he talks, you can tell he spent time in prayer. This brother would pray two to five hours a day. But the way he prayed was—it’s not as set routine prayer. It was his daily living.
Your pastor prioritizes prayer more than Bible knowledge.
Pray continuously all the time
Before Pastor Kim speaks on the pulpit, he prays. Before he speaks to someone, instead of getting into the flesh, if he’s arguing with someone, he prays.
He actually tells himself, “God, I cannot answer this question. They bring up a good argument. I can use my own fleshy wisdom, but I do know this, Lord: when I use my own fleshly wisdom, I always mess up, and You taught me that. So, Lord, please give me an answer.”
Now, do you Christians do that, or do you get in the flesh and you just argue from the Bible knowledge you know?
This is why prayer is more important than Bible knowledge.
Jeremiah 15:1 “Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.”
God said that Moses and Samuel—they prayed in the stead of Israel. That’s why Israel did not see God’s judgment yet. Israel did not experience God’s judgment yet because there were two people who stood before the Lord and prayed for Israel.
At this particular passage, that means that Moses and Samuel had the power to change God’s mind before.
This is very powerful, because the power of prayer can change the mind of an infinite, awesome, powerful God.
Examples of prayer changing God’s mind
One of the easiest examples is probably the date settings concerning the Rapture and the coming of the Antichrist.
There’s a doctrine we believe called the postponement theory. In other words, the Jews could have, when they received their Messiah, they could have had their Rapture, and the Roman Caesar could have been the Antichrist.
That’s the reason why Roman power had to shift 2,000 years later to Catholics. But why did the Lord change His mind concerning that? It depended upon the free will of the people there.
When you pray for a soul to get saved, out of His great love and mercy, God did not take that loved one home yet or start the Tribulation yet, to be deceived by the Antichrist.
The following verse is proof why the Lord delayed His coming. It’s because He wants everyone to get saved.
“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
—2 Peter 3:9, KJV
Why? Because you’re still there praying for your loved one’s soul.
That’s the power of prayer.
Well, you’ve got to understand that Samuel, he said at the book of Samuel that God forbid that he should sin when he does not pray for his people. So every minister and leader should be praying for their people. If they don’t, then they sin.
Moses—what did he do? He was slow of speech and slow of tongue. Remember that, Exodus 3.
But you know that slow of speech and slow of tongue, for some weird reason, was anointed with God’s power, that that tongue could pray powerfully and change God’s mind.
An example: Numbers 14. God said, “I’m gonna kill all these people and give you the whole Promised Land.”
Now, if I was Moses, I would say, “Good riddance. Praise the Lord.”
No, no, that’d be a horrible thing. Obviously, your pastor would do that, but usually that’s flesh.
Moses instead said, “Oh no, Lord. No, Lord. Think about Your glory, Your name.”
You change God’s mind.
There’s something about these two people, and when you read their lives, there is one thing that’s undeniable: they had a relationship with prayer.
Pastor Kim is not saying that they prayed people. Their very existence is prayer itself.
This might bring some conviction to some of you.If you’re afraid to pray in this church, Pastor Kim has to say this: it shows what your relationship with God is like.
Because if you have a strong relationship with God, then naturally prayer should come out of your mouth.
Not like, “Is there a right way to pray? I don’t think I can pray right in this church. I’m going to say the wrong words.”
That will bring conviction.
So here’s the thing: in your daily communication, if you pray so much in your life, this changes your conversation, your speech.
If prayer is your existence, you have a relationship.
Prayer is you.
What happens is then the conversation that comes out of your mouth and your actions manifest.
If you have a weak prayer life, it also shows how much you know that Bible.
So one of the tips in prayers that Pastor Kim gave— is in the sermon: Shake the Foundations. That sermon took him three months to prepare because it was a sermon on prayer that had a lot to think and to pray about.
Read the Bible before praying
One thing he learned about some of these prayer warriors is this: they believed in reading the Bible first before they prayed.
Because they themselves don’t trust in their own flesh to pray. By reading the Bible, they look at the mind of God and what He wants and what He prefers in prayer, and by doing that, then they can pray correctly.
Knowing the will of God
Now, there’s a danger with arrogance in saying, “I know what the will of God is, and this is what it’s going to be.” And sometimes God teaches you a lesson in your pride and says, “No, it’s going to be a different will right here so that I can teach you to be humble.”
But here’s something: when you spend so much time in that Book, you know God’s mind. You know more and more what He wants, what He prefers.
That’s why when they pray, they have more faith in what they pray, in what will happen.
“What if I get arrogant and prideful?”
See, they grow so much in the mind of God. They know the limitation of what is arrogant and prideful, dictating on what God’s will is. That is something you need to experience and do, and you will know it.
Sometimes you don’t understand that sometimes scientists and people who do some kind of jobs and technician work—it’s something they can’t explain to you. It’s something that you do, something you live and breathe in, that you can handle it yourself. They can give you all the instructions they can on textbook, but trust me, even if you memorize everything in a textbook, it’s totally different when you do it.
If you’ve been watching our videos more, listening to Final Fight Bible Radio more, listening to all these preachers more, and getting into all the current trends on the news, on the Antichrist, Satan, and conspiracies, this shows a very bad thing.
You’re more infatuated with evil than with your time with God.
That will mess up your mind.
Now, praise the Lord that our videos have helped you out, and Pastor Kim is not belittling other things that helped you in your spiritual walk.
Just knowing that all in the head is totally different than from the heart.
The heart lives and breathes in prayer with God.
Prayer time is so important
If Pastor Kim were to look at your prayer time compared to you listening to flesh, what are the hours in comparison?
You know what Martin Luther once said? He said it was a sin if you prayed less than three hours a day.
Some people bash KJV translators because they do not know the right doctrine, etc.
These people woke up early in the morning. Despite all that knowledge of Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and so many languages, these people woke up early in the morning and prayed.
Pastor Kim doesn’t know if this is true, but he heard one of the KJV translators, Lancelot Andrews—prayed ten hours a day.
Now you repent, and you get right with God.
There is one thing Pastor Kim guarantees: when you read the journals of all these prayer warriors, you’re gonna see this common trend.
And when you read their writings, you can tell they breathe in prayer. Their language is prayer.
No matter who you are, you can pray
It doesn’t matter how untalented you are in speech. You can pray.
He doesn’t care if you’re a Samuel who reaches old age and the nation of Israel is in apostasy. You can pray. He had wicked boys too. He’s a poor example of a leader, perhaps. But God nevertheless mentioned his name because there was something strong with his prayer life.
Jesus Christ—do you know why He was a beloved Son in whom God was well-pleased? Because He prayed early in the morning at the mountain. Before He was so busy training His disciples, doing all the miracles, attacking all the world who was against Him, preaching against their sin, He prayed early in the morning.
Another thing about Jesus Christ is, you know how He got victory over Satan in the wilderness? He was fasting as well. He had a prayer life.
Men who produced powerful revivals and souls getting saved
They mention a key thing: the filling power of the Spirit.
But how do you get the filling power of the Spirit?
You pray.
H. A. Ironside became dubbed with praying because he was famously known for prayer—prayer, prayer, prayer.
Famous preachers like J. Wilbur Chapman asked him to pray for him for a church meeting. That’s how much he depended on him, got the prayer answered.
George Mueller never even asked a dime for his orphanages. And while Hudson Taylor was struggling with no money, George Mueller was the one who prayed in the money and gave the money to Hudson Taylor at China.
So there are famous books and sermons out there if you’re interested.
E. M. Bounds is the most famous one. E. M. Bounds on prayer.
Read George Mueller’s life. You can tell that he had power in prayer.
David Brainerd—some things you’ve got to be cautious because he’s Calvinist—but if you read his diary, he had power in prayer. He would pray in the middle of the winter, the snow, that the snow would even melt around him. That’s like Jesus praying so hard that He sweat it as if it were great drops of blood.
David Brainerd prayed so hard one time that in the middle of an Indian pagan festival, as soon as he walked, these Native Americans knew there was something different about him, and they stopped.
That’s the power of prayer.
Leonard Ravenhill—he’s got a lot of sermons, audio and online, but he’s got a lot of good sermons on prayer too. That if you just listen to it, you can tell he breathes in prayer as well.
So, George Mueller—read his, read all of his writings, his journal. You could tell there’s power in prayer through that as well.
Study his life as well.
And you can tell, if you’re that curious, Pastor Kim would also recommend looking up the KJV translators.
It’s not just one, but read all their lives, and then see their schedule, their routine. There’s some prayer routine they’ve got. It’s no wonder they knew something that the Lord trusted them to translate His Word.
We’re spoiled rotten. We were trained by so many Bible-believing preachers and teachers before us. And these KJV translators, did not have the right doctrine or teachers, BUT they had a relationship with God.