all of us. It's a privilege to have Brother Jim back in our services. I met, me and Lori met Brother Jim and Sister Patty, his wife, in Israel in 2009. When we first met and we just kind of hit it off. And I'm thankful that the Lord has given me this friendship to him. And I've never told him, but I'll tell him now. He reminds me of Caleb in the Bible. And the reason being, of course, Caleb was one of the spies that was sent to spy into the promised land. Caleb and Joshua came back and they said, yeah, we can take the city. Not a problem. But the rest of the spies kind of had a little fear. But the reason I say Brother Jim reminds me of Caleb is because of his faithfulness and his faith in his God. God blessed him. And Caleb said, quote, Give me this mountain. Caleb wasn't a spring chicken. He was up there in years. And brother, I ain't cutting you down. You're not a spring chicken. Amen. But God has given him his mountain, his ministry to the people of India. He's 85 and he still Got the gusto and the drive. He loves the people of India. He loves that land and he's serving God faithfully. So brother, I thank you for that. You're an encouragement. And can I say, we're never too young or too old to serve God. Never. It will surrender to his call. So anyways, I've asked him to come and introduce Brother Shalom. I've spent a few days with brother Shalom and I've learned to love him as my brother in Christ and I appreciate him and I Get a kick. This is his first time in America So he's taking lots of pictures We're driving down the road and he's taking pictures We live in the desert there ain't a lot of pretty things here. Amen, but praise the Lord God has allowed him to be here. So I If you would, Brother Jim, come. I want you to introduce Brother Shalem. And then Brother Shalem will bring the message. I want to invite you back tonight at 6. Brother Jim's going to speak, and they're going to show some pictures of what's going on there at the work there in India. So please come back. We're missing quite a few folks. We've got a lot of folks that are sick. They're not with us. So remember them in prayer. OK. Brother, I love you. God bless you. I was a little too old to begin to learn new languages in India. I'm so glad Brother Shalem and his brother were there when I went to their state. In 2012, I went to India, and the first year was very trying, and it didn't work out with the person we thought we were going to work with. By the end of that year, I was ready to come back and really questioning whether I should be there. But Brother Shalem's wife was in the college there in Corella, where I was, and met her, got acquainted. What a sweet lady she is. She did not come back in the fall when I went there to teach, and I was disappointed. But I began to communicate with her and Brother Shalem and his wife. She did not come back because they had called Brother Solomon to a church and they said, you need a wife. And so they married and she didn't come back to the college. But she invited me over. And I went in the spring then of 2013. Praise the Lord, Solomon and his brother were there at the airport to meet me. They had enough good English to translate for me, and we began to serve the Lord there together. Tonight, the pastor said that I'm going to speak. Well, we're going to do a dual preaching this evening. I'm going to preach in English. He's going to preach in Telugu. If you know anybody who speaks Telugu, bring them with you. They'll understand. So, anyway, the main word that I learned that they use so often is Sotram, Sotram, Sotram, Sotram, Sotram. It means Hallelujah! It's a wonderful word to praise God. Lift up your voice to Him. Well, I'm pushing 85 now, and I go there and I say I'm not 85. And I'm 85! And I'm coming to be with Jesus in India. Thank you for your prayers. My dear wife is losing ground. She won't be with us very long. She's looking forward to being with the Lord. I'm taking care of her right now. So Brother Shalem came over to be with us and to be with my wife and encourage her. It's been a wonderful thing to have him. We've been getting him around every weekend to other churches where he can witness and preach and teach and share India. So he will preach to you this morning. I've told him he doesn't think in English a lot, so sometimes when he's preaching he speaks English, but he's got to remember to kind of translate, not just think in English. So he sometimes repeats himself while he's kind of going on, and I told him Just pause a little and go on. Speak well. They'll understand you. If there's anything he says that you're not sure about, ask him later. Anyway, Brother Shalom was one of my students when I first went to India. Though he had been called to pastor a church, he was very young and inexperienced, and God allowed me to teach so many of them. Now he has become my pastor. I moved my membership to his church about three years ago, and it's been a wonderful thing to be with him there. Brother Shalom loves the Lord. They live there, they endure the hardships. And I tell him there's some things when I come home, I experience it makes me weep. When I get into a tub full of warm water and soak myself, I weep for our people there because they have a bucket of cold water for their bath. And that state is a difficult state and kind of a hard state to be in, but they serve the Lord faithfully. Their food isn't like ours with such a wonderful variety. Rice and curry is the staple most of the time. So other things about India that he endures, they do it without complaining as our brother talked about this morning, the Israelites complaining and Moses complaining and the spies complaining. They don't complain and you'll never find a more wonderful group of people than our work there When I went in 2011, we had two little Baptist churches, no building. They met under a tree or on a front porch or whatever. About 15, 16, 17 members. God has blessed us and we began our 13th church recently. And these two churches, Brother Shalom and his brother Rambabu, now they have a nice large building that's been built with help from many of Americans. And many of you have contributed there as well, and we've appreciated your offering. So I won't stay any longer tonight. We'll say a few more things. I'm so glad to be back with you. You're part of my heart and I pray for you every day. And sometimes it takes a long time. My prayer list gets longer and longer. And I've only been able to get two or three people off of it this year because they died. And I don't need to pray for them anymore. So I'm pressing 85, I'm looking for the resurrection because so far I haven't been able to grow any more hair. Thank you! Brother Shalem, come preach to the people the precious word of God. Our churches over there rejoice in the Lord in the poor living conditions they have. The Lord Jesus is so rich to them. I know you'll hear him and realize how great the Lord's working with him and through him. Thank you, Brother Shalem. Praise the Lord. Whenever we come to Pulpil and first we say, Praise the Lord, even you can say, Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Greetings to you in the name of our Saviour Lord and Jesus Christ. It is my great privilege to be here in the States and visiting as a missionary pastor who is from India. Thank you. We are blessed with many churches in Andhra Pradesh, where we are serving our living God. It's a great privilege for you guys, as a young boy became a missionary pastor, to serve God in India, to proclaim the God's word where people are not saved yet. We have outreach ministry. Every time we are praying for outreach ministry to continue because we know that we all have a special focus, special focus upon the world to see souls to save in Jesus name. I'm really so blessed with all the with all the graciousness of God and His grace is amazing. God led me to save, save in Jesus 2009. 2009 I saved, I accepted, I mean I believed, I believed in Jesus. as He shed His precious blood for my own sins, He died for me, and He bade and risen again. I believe in Jesus as my Savior forever. And after that, I had a decision to continue Church, because you know, I obeyed for God's Word. I want to grow in God's Word. So, every time I follow my dear pastor, we do exercise like understanding the Word of God every time, because He preached for me, preached for me a lot. So, in 2011, the church ordained me as a pastor. From that on, God opened doors for me to serve God faithfully. God is faithful. faithful to everybody, one who, one who try to know about, you know, God, then God can teach us many things to understand, to grow in, in the spirit, the spirit of God, walk in the spirit of God. I'm sure that God can, God can bless us with all His good manner, in great way, for great reason. So today, I'm really thankful to God with His great presence, and I really extend my heart to dear pastor. um our dear pastor and sister they are here um brother john richard's son thank you so much uh for inviting me to stand here among the dhh members and um after i came here i really blessed with all with all of your love so you have such a love and sharing a wonderful fellowship with each other. And I really marveled to see things here, watch upon the church here. I'm really blessed with all of these. And I also extend my heart to Brother Jim. He is helping us a lot for Indian work, Indian war to reach the perishing souls, to save them in Jesus name. It's not our credit. It's all up to God. It's the will of God. When we obey for God's will, then God can lead you in His manner to approach the approach the people, those who do not know about Jesus Christ. God led us to, I mean, Jesus led us to, you know, go through many remote places in India. Many people, we went through many people. If you see, if you watch, you know, some pictures, you know, I know that, you know, you will be surprised about to, you know, see, you know, things in India. Because of, after, you know, brother Jim, Jim's visit in India, we were preaching gospel, presenting gospel, where gospel is not in being preached yet. So we went through many places, we preached gospel for perishing souls. There were many people They were saving, they saved their souls in Jesus name. They were accepting Jesus as their own personal savior. Even, you know, most of the people, they were following, continued to following the mission out there. Those who are saved in Jesus after the salvation, after they are hearing, they are praying, praying for pastors' families, praying for missionary work, praying for outreach ministry. So I would like to speak on the topic of prayer this morning before we go to Let us hear some some topic today. Just we can pray and we'll hear the word of god. Let us pray. Father in heaven, praying for this wonderful opportunity. Thank you lord. the United States to visit a church as a missionary pastor. Thank you, Lord, that you have done so many, so many things in our life. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for all the dear church members here, dear pastor's family. Thank you, Lord. I am so blessed with all their love. thank you lord for all their agape love for all of us here those who are presenting to the church lord enable me to preach this morning lord talk to talk to all the brothers brothers and sisters lord bless us with thy word bless us with thy presence lord in jesus name i pray amen amen thank you so much for inviting me to stand before you all, and it's a grace of God. So this morning I would like to present some preaching about prayer. We know that in Luke chapter 11, verses 2, we know that disciples of Jesus Christ, they were, they were asking Jesus to teach, teach about prayer, teach about prayer. So we can, We read now Luke chapter 11 verses 2. Here it says, And He said unto them, When ye pray, Say, Our Father, which art in heaven. Hello, be thy name, thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. We know how the importance of prayer. Disciples, they learn prayer from Jesus. Of course, we know, we understand that, you know, there is model. Jesus taught, Jesus taught about, Jesus taught them to you know, pray like this, the model, you know, they got from Jesus. So it's very important to continue our prayerful life in the church. As a believers of church, we have to pray. We know that, you know, we can understand a lot better about prayer, about prayer. What will happen when we pray? What will happen? We understand that, you know, prayer can help change the situations to turn away. If you pray faithfully, God will bless you. We know that Hippopros, Hippopros, he prays earnestly. Now let us go to read the Colossians 4.12. The book of Colossians. Colossians 4.12. I'm sorry, there is a little bit, you know, pronunciation differences. between, you know, pronunciation. So, yeah, let us read that verse in 4.12. Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers. that he may stand for fact and complete in all the will of God. Amen. Here we know that in Apostle Paul, he was writing these things to the church in Colossians. while he was in prison, while he was arrested in prison. So he was saying, he was sharing witness to the church there, church in Colosseum. He was writing. We know that, you know, he never visited, he never had been to the church. Church in Colosseum. But he's writing, he's writing and witnessing about Epaphras in a prayer. As a minister for Christ, as a believer of the church, he's taking much time to pray. He's praying for bond servant. We know that in Paul is born servant of God. Even sometimes, you know, we see, we watch at, you know, couple of, you know, people, they make themselves to God for always. to do to walk according to will of God, to go for any country, to preach the God's word because it is very important. Preaching is the gospel more important than anything. We can understand about in a growing churches, how they grow in Christ. If you hear the word of God and then sit simply and go for all your work and according to all your thoughts, you don't do good. We understand that what is the perfect will of God. We understand that the perfect will of God is that prayer. We have to pray. Pray for the perishing souls. Pray about their salvation. We have to pray for them. We have to find time for them. Today, in many churches, we are looking around. In many churches, you know, there is no prayerful life. Some people, they say that, you know, we are attending to the churches and we are hearing the word of God from our teachers, from our pastors. Our pastor is great, you know, they are preaching. They are preaching good. They think like that, you know, they feel like that, but they don't pray. They don't do prayer. You know, here we see that, you know, about, you know, Epaphras in prayer is Apostle Paul, you know, he was, you know, he was witnessing about his prayer, how he was, you know, praying. He's praying earnestly to solve the problems Sometimes we feel that, you know, if someone, you know, if someone going through some kind of problems in his life, sometimes, you know, people watch at them and they feel that, you know, oh, oh, you got, you know, this problem, that problem, I'm sorry. As a believer, we have to burden for them, share their Share their trouble. Share with their feelings. We have to pray for them. We have to weep for the souls. We have to, as a believer, we have to have a special vision, a special focus upon the saving souls. We have to see many souls adding the kingdom of Lord Jesus. If you become a simple believer who would like to hear God's word and go back to your works, there is nothing. There is nothing. We understand that if you have, if you If you want to become a faithful believer to the Church, Church of Christ, you need to pray faithfully. You need to pray for things. In India, our church members, they pray very faithfully. They weep while they are praying. You know why I am here today? I believe that their prayer has helped me to reach safely. When I want to burden for perishing souls, they pray for me. They stand behind me. They come to church, they kneel before God, before the presence of Jesus, and they pray earnestly. They pray fervently. We saw that they were praying with tears. They were weeping for the souls. They were doing such things. In India, we have fasting prayers. Our church members, they all are very poor. They don't have any jobs because their parents did not educate them. They are like illiterates. They are like killiters, they want to work during the day, all the day they work in the field, in the fields. Whatever they get, you know, some work to do in the field, they go for work and they do. Then again they come to, they come to the chet and they present themselves. sometimes if you pastor they don't need to announce about in a schedule church schedule or you need to come through certain time and according to schedule if you have in free will you're most welcome to the church you're most welcome to presence of jesus and to present yourself to offer yourself if you don't If you don't have nothing to give up to anybody, you have an opportunity to pray. Pray for the souls. They do like that. In India, they do like that. They come to church whenever they get opportunity because the Bible says that, you know, pray without ceasing. We have to find in time with ourselves to attain the presence of God, to offer ourself. We have to offer ourself. According to Rome 12, first one, can we read that verses how Paul is beseeching you? Verses 1, I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. In India they don't, they deserve to offer anything to God's will. They were praying for souls, souls winning. They are behind us as a believer. They pray, they fast in the presence of God. You know, in India, church members, once if they take decision for fasting prayer, then they pray up to three days without eating anything. Without eating anything, they pray earnestly. They don't see, if I come to church and kneel down like that, maybe that's where they are sticking. They don't see that at all. They do prayer like that. They raise their hands and they weep while they are praying. They pray very faithfully. They are They continue their prayers up to three days. Three days they don't eat anything because they experience out of their work, out of their work, out of the word of God. Because we understand that Esther, we understand Esther's fasting prayer, how they did. They take all their inspiration, all their inspiration, they go through and they offer word of prayer for the perishing souls to save for their salvation. They pray according to 1 Timothy chapter 2. Pray for all men for their salvation. Pray for the leaders. Pray for the officials. Pray for all the brothers. It's very important as a believer if you hear God's word and after that if you go if you go to your works there is nothing but when you come to hear the word of God then if you pray according to that scripture it's the will of God therefore you know God can lead you in his manner to show you many things many things will reveal through your eyes you will be going to see many amazing things what God is going to do some things for you even in India even in India you know our church you know they stand for good prayers they pray like that whenever they find time, they come to surrender themselves for the will of God and they pray, they weep for the souls, passion for the perishing souls, and then we are looking so many blessings. within short time within short time we extended we with a great ministry there extended with a great churches there in different places through our faith baptist ministry yes we can understand prayer help to change your situations you know we understand that you know Matthew chapter 8 Matthew chapter 8, there Jesus, Jesus teaching them without unbelief. Let us read Matthew chapter 8. 23, verses 23 through 27. And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And behold, there rose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves. But he was sleeping, Jesus was sleeping. And his disciples came to him and awoke him, saying, Lord, she was perishing. We perish. And he said unto them, Why are ye fearful? Woe ye of little faith! Then he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea and there was a great calm. See sometimes, even as a believer, because of the unbelief, unfaithfulness, Sometimes, you know, you are passing through many hardships in life, troubles in life. Yes, of course, you know, you may be facing many troubles in your life. It's not a big deal. Because our God is faithful. When you offer yourself faithfully, Faithfully to the presence of God when you pray faithfully without Unbelief Then I am sure I am damn sure that in God is going to change your situations God will God will make you to walk in perfect way to Reveal his wonders to great things to to see you. If God allowed, there is no any bad situations against you. Sometimes Satan may, you know, try to fear. Satan may try to fear you. Sometimes Satan may try to cause many troubles in your life. Sometimes, you know, many people they see that even between believers, wife and husband. After they believe in Jesus, you know, sometimes they don't maintain fellowship. Each other. Every time. Every time they got, you know, something, something, problem between wife and husband. Why? You don't know? Satan is, you know, making you to feel trouble. you don't know wasting time you are wasting time you know I can say that you know I can say that you are very great people in Jesus Christ You know, when I came to the States here, came to the States here, I was looking, looking to everybody like this. Because I am, you know that, you know, I'm very, such a short guy. I'm not, you know, I just want to give you a little fun. I'm not blaming you or blaming your height. I'm not like that. Just sharing things to know some more. What I mean, I mean that you are such a precious people in Jesus Christ. Why sometimes believers they are wasting time without presenting themselves to our living God, Savior, Jesus. Jesus is our Savior. Jesus Christ can save you from any kind of possible dangers in your life. He is able. He can do anything for you. He can do all things for you. Everything is possible for our Savior to keep you away from all the possible dangers in the world. Brothers and sisters in Christ, it's our great time to pray, to present ourselves into Jesus, into Jesus presence. It's our time. Maybe you don't know about some history, about some Indian history. We have a, we got a connection from Babylon to India. You know, now the Persecution is started in India against Christians. Do you know who they are? They are Jew. They are Jewish people. We have history. If you read, you know, I need to find some more things because, you know, Recently, when the prosecution is, you know, acute, then I found, you know, some history, history from them. The prosecution is, you know, started already against the Jewish people. So it's our time to, it's our time to, you know, pray, pray for the nations, pray for the salvation of the people. We know that, you know, there are so many people around the world, even in America. Even in America, we are looking, looking at many people, how they are stuck with, with their wickedness, wickedness. I'm sure, brother, one thing I can say that, you know, If you become as a prayerful believer to Jesus or ministers to Christ, you will change, you will change all your, all your worldly behavior. I know that you will put everything, you will put off every old behavior away from this world, and you will be going to separate from the world, you will live like as a prayerful person. So, we understand that, you know, prayer change many situations. If you, maybe sometimes, you know, some believers They may bother about many troubles in their life. With their health issues, with their relationship with the wife and husband. Sometimes they feel bad about some things in their life. You don't need to because we have a hope in Jesus Christ. There is a solution. There is a solution for you that you need to understand about this all faithfully. You know, Jesus says here, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he rose and rebuked the winds on the sea, and there was a great calm. It's a marvelous thing. So if you have faith in Jesus Christ, your prayer can help you to change the situations. Then we read, let us read Mark, the book of Mark 11, 11 verses 22 through 24, up to 24, I'm reading. And Peter calling to remembrance, saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursed is withered away. And Jesus answering, saith unto them, have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, Thou whosoever shall say unto his mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, He shall have whatsoever He said. Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye deserve, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. Amen. Faith, I said in faith. If you pray faithfully, then your bad situations, they are not a matter to you. If you have faith in your prayer, then God change your situations away from you. And God will walk with the help of in a spirit, the spirit of God can lead you in order to see many, many things, many blessings in the life. Amen. Hallelujah. Amen. We say hallelujah even in the churches in India. So even we see that, you know, we see the Paul's intention. He's saying, he's saying to, he's writing to believers, Believers have to pray faithfully. The book of Rome, chapter 15, verse 30. Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me. We know that, you know, Paul's intention, you know, believers of the church, that they have to pray for, pray for born servant of God. Pray for your pastor. pray for your dear pastors because God lead them in such a compassion towards the perishing souls to save them through preaching to presenting the gospel when the presenting the gospel you know God can do you know things to change the many souls out of this world to save them to give them to have an eternal life. In India, whenever Jim comes to India, I don't want, you know, boasting about him. I don't want to lift him up. I'm saying what we saw. I'm saying what we did in India while he was there. Whenever he preached the gospel, he wept. He was weeping for souls winning. As a brother in Christ, I am beseeching you, pray for churches, pray for nations. Take a burden for the will of God, for the glory of God. And we all can share our burdens. And we, we are the believers, since we are the believers of Christ, therefore, Therefore, we know that, you know, how people are, people are stuck in with their wickedness, how they are doing, you know, sins. Before I come to here, I heard some things from pastors. Some pastors, they emailed me. When they hear, when they heard things from me that I'm going to Las Vegas they were disgracing me I don't know why they were saying to me you are do you know pastor do you know you are going to sin city why don't I question am I not in the sinful world not only a Las Vegas only a sin city It's called forever or what? In the God's, in our, in the sight of God, whole world is under the sin. Under the sin. As a pastor, whom do you try to disgrace? Disgrace the other pastor. How do you disgrace? How do you disgrace? As a man of God, as a servant of God, or as a believer, or as a minister for Christ, how he live? You want to, you only want to live for, you want to live for his being like a You want to live for, live for you know, gain all the money in the world and own it and enjoy? If a man of God, if a servant of God who burdened for perishing souls to save when they want When a servant of God want to see souls winning, souls winning, then what he do? He obey for the Lord's will. You know, today I am here, I am here with a, I am sorry, I am here under a will of God. there is will of God that's what and I came to I came to in a stand before you on preaching if there is no will of God I may dine or somewhere else you know while I'm traveling but God brought me safely to present present myself to the church here living church why God brought you to brought you here we have a purpose we need to understand our purpose we need to understand as a children of God as a believers as a minister for Christ what are you doing you have your purpose do you have you do you have a Purpose to bring a glory to God's name for every day with all your deeds If you have a Purpose in God's presence. I believe that you know God never puts you away God allow you to God allow you to do something for His will, something for His will every day. We have our duties every day, jobs and everything like that. You know, we have, you know, duties in the Church of, in the Church of Lord Jesus. We have a purpose in Lord, So we have to understand about these things. We have to understand. We have to pray about these things. Lord, open the doors for me to understand the purpose. I have a purpose to come here. That's what, you know, under the will of God, I'm here before you. Otherwise, You know, in San Francisco, at immigration, they gave me a very hard time. They want me to go back. They want me to go back. After they bothered me for some time, then I went to, they left me. like that, benches, and they went in. Meanwhile, I went there and I sat and prayed. I sat and I was praying. I have no mobile in my hand to try to communicate with Brother Jim to recommend for me to come to the United States, step into the United States. I have no mobile. Even they grabbed all my mobile and bag. They grabbed away from me. They put them inside somewhere else and they were trying to bother me. But when I got, you know, at that certain situation, certain situation, it seems like you know bothering me but I'm exceeding within a great hope so I when I sat on the bench you know I was you know praying to ask God's will Lord if there is thy will thy will allow me to present myself to the you know churches in United States I want to see brother in Jesus Christ I want to see I want to visit them I want to preach for them I want to pray I want to pray we know that you know at the end of the world we believe that God allow preachers to come to pass across the world, world to preach the gospel, preach the gospel. So when I prayed there, God answered my prayer immediately. When I prayed after that, you know, they were, they came to me again and they were, they were asking me, asking me, if you don't say truth, you will be, you will be remain no more here, your vesa is going to cancel permanently, we cancel, you know, then even you will be going to, you will be going to punish according to our law. They were putting me in such a way. When they were telling me like that, then I told them, I say truth. There is no untruth behind me, why I am coming to here. I say, I say, I I obey for the I obey for God's will I obey for I obey for the law here law I want to respect so I say anything boldly without you know untruth I say everything truth when I said like that then you know yeah you can tell me now I I told them, I told them, here I am coming for visit churches. I am coming as a visitor. I am going to brother James Meikle family. This is what I am here, so and so. I explained things to me, things from me. Then they said, I don't know, you know, they talked to brother Jim also. They communicated from there. Then, you know, immediately, when I told them these things with them, they allowed me to, you know, go. Yeah. Otherwise, you know, I don't be here. Why I'm saying, you know, Whatever Bible says, we have to follow that. Bible says that, pray without ceasing. Pray faithfully. And try to stand fearless when you are going through certain hard situations in your life. Do not fear. We have our Savior. He will protect you from all the possible dangers. He will lead you. He will guide you. He will teach you things in order to reach your goal. If you have a purpose and goal about God's will, then you will be going to see so many blessings in life. We know that, you know, great prayer. Jacob, he did, you know, great prayer. Genesis 32 verses 26. According to the verses, you know, we understand how he prayed. How he prayed. Let us read the verses. Soon I'm going to conclude. Genesis 32 verses 26. And he said, let me go. for the day break and he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me. You know, what Jacob, he reveals to God, I will not let thee go except thou bless me whenever you pray whenever you pray you need to pray like that sometimes some people they pray then they forget they forget what they were asking in their prayer they forget about those things they leave these things away and they mingle with with their own thoughts and own works and whatever they wish. But whenever you pray, as a believer, as a believer, you need to pray until God can bless you. He can't stop. You need to continue to pray. If you have any problem, you need to continue to pray for your problem, then God will God will let you see the great solution out of your prayers, how you will be getting out of your trouble. God will bring you out of your trouble when you have faith, faithfulness to pray in the presence of God. I will not let thee go except thou bless me. And he said unto him, What is thine name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel. For as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed And Jacob asked him and said, tell me, I pray thee thy name. And he said, wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. Amen. And Jacob called the name of the place Penuel. You know that meaning, meaning of Penuel. For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. Amen. See, you know, we know that, you know, pray. Sometimes, you know, think yourself, maybe you're missing. You're missing. Missing prayerful life. What is the meaning of, you know, prayerful life? What is the meaning of prayerful life? You know that. After we hear the word of God from the church, we have to pray according to the scripture, what it says. We have to understand. When we hear the word of God, we have to understand, understand a lot about the scripture, even more, more than your pastor, because God can teach you. If you, if you are willing to hear the word of God, God can teach you more. The Holy Spirit of God can help you, help you to understand the Word of God. So dear brothers and sisters in Christ, you know when you pray, you pray, you pray earnestly and pray about things, pray about your church growth, pray about your pastor, pastor's compassion. They are compassionate for the perishing souls. So, just try to understand and try to receive the things as God is, you know, as the Spirit of God is, you know, leading you to here today. And you know that, you know, how situations are turned away from Jacob's life. Jacob's life. There is a lot to say about their both brothers. A lot to say. But lack of, you know, some English language, I'm not going into every detail. If God, if God willing me to, you know, do, preach to word to word, to explain about things, I will. I believe that God can make me to lead in that way. So God can bless you through any situations. Don't worry about your bad situations, about your health issues, about your financial shortage, and about any faults sometimes. Do not waste time as a believer. Every time, every time, whenever you get, you know, some trouble with wife and husband, each other, whenever you get some trouble, every time you need to teach for your wife, you need to teach for your husband, it's don't do anything. It's don't do anything. You can, you have to, come out of those thoughts and put those thoughts away and stand for God, everything will be settled. If you believe in Jesus Christ, there is power under the salvation. Salvation is not a simple thing, it's extraordinary. It's extraordinary to protect you from any kind of troubles in your life. We know that, you know, how Jacob was blessed with his prayer. And even we see that some prayer from Moses after he went mountain, then when he was up to 40 days, then after you know he returned and see things there you know we know that in they made in a cup for their goddess and israelis are you know doing such sin against against god so we know that you know um exodus 32 32 versus 30 verses 30, 31, 32. Exodus 32 verses 30. And it came to pass on the morrow that Moses said unto the people, ye have sinned a great sin and now I will go up to the Lord adventure, I shall make an atonement for your sin. And Moses returned unto the Lord and said, O these people have sinned against sin, great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin, and not brought me, I pray thee, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written." Moses, he prayed for Israelites, for his people, while they are disobeying, while they are sinned against God. So sometimes, you know, Yesterday, our dear pastor, he shared about, you know, one thing, one thing. One of the believer, after he saved in Jesus Christ, he went to kind of backslide. Then after a while, he deserved to God's Word and he deserved to maintain his fellowship with the church members. After when he came back to church, after he presented himself, he wanted to restore his fellowship with the church. But one of the church members, somebody, you don't want to come back again. He mean, he want to die in his sins or what? He want to die in sins or what? If believers, if they, we know that some sin already it's judged. It's judged already. If believers, if they sin, if they had some fault in their life, if you don't forgive them, how God forgive your sins? How God forgive your sins? If you forgive others, then God forgive your sins too. ever since. So in the same way, our dear pastor John Churson, he knows the scriptures. He knows the scripture, how to handle the problems in the church. In the church when they rise, sometimes As a pastor, he had compassion for the perishing souls. He don't want to perish someone else without Jesus. Don't you know, if people are dying in sin, don't you have in pain while they are dying? If you have a burden about perishing souls in the world, you know, we have to appreciate our dear pastor. How he has, you know, the great compassion for the perishing souls in America. It's not a simple thing to serve God in America. It's not a simple thing Simple thing to know. Saru God in India. In India, wherever you go, you know, dear pastor, you know, he shared some things with you before I, you know, come to here, come to stand here. Why I am taking some pictures? Because you are clear without, you know, some idol, idol, you know, statues. In India, if you happen to visit India, You will weep for the perishing souls. Why? Because of the statues. India is full of statues. If you see something in India, I am damn sure that because of your faith in God, you will burden for perishing souls. You will pour your heart. to change how God can change the nations. God can change. One of the things is that Hindus, Hindu people in India, they build their statues in the middle of the road. Brother Jim, Jim is the one who witnessed here. You know, he saw many, many, many Hindu statues, you know, they built middle of the road, middle of the road. There is no law. They say that, you know, they claim that, you know, we have God. They made their gods to have, you know, gold. Some people, they offer very valuable plates of gold for their goddess. There is no hope for them. Where there is no hope for them, still they are doing things in such a way. Then compare some things. even in in the church of lord in the church of lord jesus and sometimes in people they want to offer something to god that's all they can do they want to offer something to god but their their heart is away from away from jesus you see we find you know things like that we see we see those things those things and we can understand that you know even in the church of lord lord jesus some people still they are still they are not understanding the word of god still they are not you know trying to stand scripturally they are breaking they don't know they are breaking they're breaking the word of god You know, sometimes, you know, they were thinking that, you know, we are offering God, you know, I made good cake for the church. I made good food for the church. Who wants to eat your food? Yes, of course, you know, sometimes. But, you know, food is not a main priority for your faithfulness. When you want to When you want to serve God faithfully, you need to serve God with your heart. You need to think according to scripture, according to scripture to implement you know things implement things to bring a glory to God's name see she has a will of God every day in your life you know people some people they don't know still they are they are coming to the Lord's church they are offering in some things they don't know they are they are doing some things like a Hindus in what they are doing, without purpose, without will of God, without obligation. Without obligation, check your obligations, how you are obligating for the things, for the will of God. Are you obligating some things on your own? To go to presence of God, to present yourself to know God. Don't you know God is watching over you? God is watching! Without faith, there is nothing. So, you have to have faith to change your situations. We have so much to share. We know that about born servant of God, Paul. Paul's life. How he did pray for church. Whenever he pray, he tear for the church. He burden for the church. He burden for perishing souls. He burden for either nation. Nations of you. Every time he's looking forward to looking forward preach the gospel He has such a part So in India In India We got you know great population great population so pray for India we are reaching as much as we can to present in gospel through a remote area through streets Going through some slum area Slum areas where there is no preached gospel. We are reaching the people Whenever brother Jim come to India, it's our blessing To To travel with you know brother who is from United States. It's our blessing to travel with him to present in gospel in different states, different areas, and different districts in India. By the grace of God, we have some Polish influence. And though some Hindus, they want to come against, they want to come against Christians, they don't want to allow christians to you know come to their places to hear the gospel some some hindus you know they are trying to prohibit you know things but with all your kind prayers and with all your love and you know churches in india they are praying for us they are burdened for you know, perishing souls. Therefore, you know, Brother Jim Martin, we and Brother Ram Babu is my one brother, pray for his family. And he's also serving God. He's doing as a missionary pastor, as him as I am doing. So, you know, pray for his family. We both are from one family. We born after, you know, we ordained as a pastor. We are doing, you know God's ministry together. So God has blessed us with 13 churches in different places and we have missions in India and pray for Indian building construction. Now we got We got to construct the church buildings in two places. One place called Neelai Sepoyilam and another place called Aetuvuru. One place is on the other side of the river. One place is close to our area. So, pray for those two building constructions. And pray for our prayer team. As pastors, there is some gathering every day to pray. All the day, they pray. They pray together. Brother Jim knows more about this all. And even I can show you while I am going to present the Indian minister picture. So I can see you about this all and pray for pastor's good health because you know they are in some ways they are in depression indeed some ways and they are working though they are working in the field they don't get because India In India, out of our wages, it's nothing. Usually we get only 300 rupees or 400 rupees if we do some extra job. 400 rupees, which is in dollar, we can say that four dollars In a whole day, if you work in a whole day, we get that much wages. We are fasting in a rural area, not among the people who are educated, not who are the people who are doing some job. It's in town area, not in rural area. We are living in rural area, around rural area. So pray about this all things. One of the main thing and need is that, need is that, you know, water. There is no proper water facility. We are drinking fluorine water. Even pastors, because of that, you know, pastors are getting some sickness and even not only pastors and believers. We want to establish any mineral plant which is cost like $2,000 or something around. So pray about this all, and we have to change the water problem there. And even some people, they want to carry water, drinking water. Carry drinking water from long ways, long ways, because they don't have even bore wells. You know, regarding our gypsy people, gypsy people, you know, we got one pump for them, but it's not, you know, sufficient because, you know, there is so many people. We have to have one more borewell pump and pray about that thing. And we want to educate, you know, children. We have, you know, more than 50 children. So we want to educate them, pray about that need. for India and our churches opened an invitation for preachers who would like to preach for perishing souls in India. You are most welcome. If you burden for perishing souls, there is no forcing behind this. Just with your With God's will and with your willingness, you are most welcome to preach God's word, present God's word in India. So, most welcome. Our church, you know, they opened an invitation for you. So, most welcome. And pray about my traveling back to India. I will be here up to first week of October. within 10 days maybe more. So after 10 days I will be going on my way to India. So see you again. If God willing me to come again, I will come. I don't take this much time, don't worry. So today I have a lot to share with you. I shared as much as I can. You need to know, more than me, when you come to looking some things directly, you will be going to understand many things. And pray for Sister Patti, who is wife of Brother Jim. It's my great blessing to help her here. And mostly while we are staying at his home, before we were Bible studying, We were doing some Bible study every time. We were discussing about, you know, things. So like that, pray for me, pray for brother Jim. Pray for his good health. He is very anxious to come to India every time. We appreciate his coming to India. We want him to come more and more. Because it's a lot in the church. So we want him to, you know, welcome more and more. And pray for me. Thank you for all your love. Thank you so much. Don't you share your love with me. Yeah, I understand that you have a love for me. So, we are loving you, sisters and brothers, and we are praying for you. Our prayer team is, you know, behind us and praying for you, praying for you, brothers and sisters. And so, you also continue to pray us in your personal prayers. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you, dear God. I'm thankful for that message. You know, prayer is about seeking. Seeking the will of God. I thought prayer was all about seeking His will. I'm just going to ask you a question. What have you sought after here lately? What are you seeking now? Material wealth? Fortune? Fame? What are you seeking after? We should, as born-again children of God, seek after God and His will for our lives. He wants to save us. That's number one. After we are born again, we've been regenerated in Christ, then we're to serve Him. And I know there's times that things happen. Obstacles come in our way. Sometimes if we're not careful, we'll focus all of our time on those circumstances and those obstacles around us instead of looking up and focusing on God. You see what's going on? I need help. Does everybody here need help? Amen? Anybody says, oh, I don't need God, they're lying to themselves, they're lying to you. Listen, we all need God. God purposely put a void in our hearts to see after Him. I know people seek after lots of things, especially in this city. But I'm here to tell you, dark voids will never be filled with pain. It's only taken God and people alone to fill the void. So if you're under the sound of my voice, I pray you'll take this message to heart and seek God's will. As I said, the very first thing that God wants is for you to be saved. That way you can have a relationship. God be merciful to me a sinner. Somebody thought that when God answered your prayer, Mr. Lemonite, the old devil living in the world, going, oh, God answered my prayer. No. I tell you, that wasn't the Lord. That was Satan trying to get you to think that God answered your prayer. He only hears one prayer from a sinner. There's got to be a legend. So, if you're here and you need to move, you come. I will drive you into session. But thank you, brother Chad, for the message, good preaching. I appreciate that and I look forward to tonight. And I know it's five after one. Oh my goodness. Y'all are going to be late at the afternoon. No one's going to be late at children's today. Big world. I'd rather be here. Amen? Tonight, come back. Come back. Because we don't get a lot of missionaries. Otherwise, Now, if we were back in Arkansas, we could have a missionary every time. But we're out. In the West, the wild, wild West, the left coast. And folks, from my neighborhood, it's like there's no use for them. There are heathens out there. Yeah, they are. But they are heathens in Arkansas. There are heathens everywhere that need to hear about Jesus. Okay? Come on, brother, let's have a talk.