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When you pray and when you worship, the Lord will speak prophetically to the pastor or someone in the congregation will give a word of prophecy and you will hear what God wants to speak to you. But when there's no prayer, there's no room for spiritual activity.
Number three, the Lord came into the temple. When you do the first two correctly, then the third happens automatically. The presence of the Lord will come flooding into your church. The moment you step into your church, you will see a thick presence of God in the church. Thick presence. Everyone in the church can feel the tangible presence of the Lord and without a word being spoken people will get healed. Do you believe that?
I have seen that. So I tell you this a truth. I have seen this in my own ministry and in the churches that I've been to. This church that I told you earlier in Lancaster, California. The pastor, a very godly prayerful man, Josephu, he showed me some videos of what happens in their church after a prayer meeting. So one particular day, this church is given to prayer very much. On day twice a week is a prayer meeting. The pastor may just share for 5 minutes and they pray for 1 hour or two hours and then one day of the week is just pure worship. The church everybody gathers in the church just to worship the Lord for two hours in a row. On Sunday service they worship God for 45 minutes, 1 hour and then they pray for another 1 hour. Then they have other services. So this church is given to prayer.
So one day after their midweek prayer meeting, everybody left. All the lights been turned off. The pastor came and sat in his office just to rest a while before he went back home and for some unknown reason his eyes happened to look at his the TV screen in his office which will show him all the video cameras in the church. Suddenly he saw lights jutting here and there everywhere. Streaks of light like lightning just jutting everywhere. Presence of angels of God in the church. He tells me every week after a prayer meeting he sees this. It is more abundant after a prayer meeting, the presence of angels. So that confirms how prayer prepares the way for the presence of God to come flooding into your church.
And when the Lord Jesus comes, number four, he will teach. So the end time pastor or leader will be prophetically inspired to preach and to teach. Not just you may prepare your message. But when you're standing here, new inspirational ideas will start flowing in you. You'll be inspired to say things that you've never planned before prophetically. And the Lord will suddenly tell you, tell you there's a person there having this problem. And you will begin to minister prophetically because the Lord is standing here and he is doing the teaching.
And number five, Jesus healed the sick and healings and miracles will become a commonplace in your church. Matthew chapter 21:14. Every sick person in your church will be healed every Sunday and your church will become a healing center. Amen. Amen.
So this is the will of God for the end time church. So I humbly ask you my fellow ministers and handmaidens of God. Analyze your church. Analyze your calling. Analyze your ministry. If you have faulted in all these things that I shared with you today, you repent, put your life right and you tell the Lord. You know, once I went to preach in a church and the Lord told me, tell them, oh no, not in a church, a pastor's meeting. He said, "Tell them, give me my church back to me." And when the Lord said that, I saw his face, tears rolled down his eyes and he stretched his hands to the pastors. He said, "Give me my church back to me. Give it back to me." When I saw the tears rolling down the eyes of the Lord and his voice was choking when he spoke the word, it broke my heart and I knelt down and I wept to see the King of glory pleading, pleading or begging mortal men, give me my church. Give it back to me so that I will build it. You have corrupted my church. You have raped my church. She's like an orphan, naked, blind, wounded. That's how the church is. Give it back to me.
Point number seven, this conclusion. When the temple is cleansed, the Lord Jesus came and sat in the temple and he taught and he healed the sick. Matthew 21:14, Mark 11:17, and Luke 19:47. And he was teaching daily in the temple. Then the blind and the lame came to him in the temple and he healed them. Five points. Number one, first the temple was cleansed. That's the first thing. Now what does that signify? Yesterday I gave you a homework. This afternoon I'll give you another homework. Did you do your homework yesterday? Was it beneficial? All right. Now, I give you another homework this afternoon.
Point number one, temple was cleansed. What does it mean? Analyze what's going on in your church. Sit down and analyze your church. It's okay, Bishop. Analyze the things that are going on in your church with all what I've just shared with you. That's number one.
Number two, the Lord emphasized for prayer to be restored. So what does this signify? Proper acceptable protocol for church service. Proper acceptable church protocol or protocol for church service is prayer. Prayer should be important. Mark 11:17, "My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves. You have stolen the glory of God. You have stolen the Lord's time. You have stolen the Lord from coming to preach here. You have stolen it because the Lord could not come. You're so busy with all your activities."