Cry Out and God Will Answer
In this powerful message, the pastor draws from the stories of the widow in 2 Kings 4, Hannah, and Hagar to show that desperate, faith-filled prayer opens the door to divine intervention. Believers are encouraged to cry out to God in every difficulty, trusting that He hears the covenant cry of His children and will open their eyes to the resources, breakthroughs, and blessings already prepared for them. This sermon is a stirring call to cultivate a lifestyle of prayer, believing that with God all things are possible.
Overview
In this second installment of the series "Shiloh: My God Will Answer," Pastor Ester Bartel calls the church to a lifestyle of desperate, faith-filled prayer, anchored in the conviction that God hears and responds to every cry of His covenant people. Drawing primarily from the widow's miracle in 2 Kings 4:1–7 and Hagar's encounter in Genesis 21:14–19, she demonstrates that divine intervention is always available—but it must be unlocked through bold, persistent, and Spirit-led prayer. The sermon's central refrain is that prayer is not merely a religious exercise but the doorway through which heaven's already-available resources flood into the physical realm.
Key Scripture Passages
- 2 Kings 4:1–7 — The widow of a prophet's son cries out to Elisha; her jar of oil multiplies supernaturally to cancel all her debt, illustrating that a desperate, specific cry brings divine, practical provision.
- Psalm 50:15 — "Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me" — God's standing invitation to cry out rather than seek human alternatives first.
- Genesis 21:14–19 — Hagar and Ishmael are cast into the wilderness; God hears the boy's cry and opens Hagar's eyes to a well already present, revealing that unseen resources await those who cry out in covenant faith.
- Philippians 4:6–7 — "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication … let your requests be made known to God" — the antidote to anxiety is prayer, followed by a mind fixed on Christ.
- Romans 8:26 — The Spirit intercedes with groanings too deep for words, empowering Spirit-led prayer even when the believer has no specific prayer point.
- Galatians 3:13–14 — Christ redeems believers from the curse so the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, grounding the claim that every believer's cry reaches the throne as a covenant cry.
- Malachi 3:10 (referenced implicitly) — God promises to open the windows of heaven for those who bring the tithe, connected by the pastor to the multiplication principle in the widow's story.
- Matthew 7:7 / Luke 11:9 (alluded to) — "Ask … seek … knock" — the synoptic principle behind the sermon's call to open one's mouth and make requests known.
Sermon Outline
- The Church Is a House of Prayer — Not an Option, but an Assignment
- Jesus declared His house shall be called a house of prayer (Isaiah 56:7; Matthew 21:13); therefore prayer is the church's primary corporate task.
- Intercession covers cities, governments, families, and the next generation; neglecting prayer cedes ground to the enemy.
- Personal testimony: people make avoidable mistakes when no one is praying covering over them; prayer can "push you back" from wrong places and wrong influences.
- God's Standing Invitation: Call on Him in Trouble (Psalm 50:15)
- God does not want us to exhaust human options first; He says "Call on Me" so that the relationship is built and the glory returns to Him.
- Cultivate a culture of continuous prayer — in the shower, in the car, in bed, at all times.
- Praying in the Spirit (Romans 8:26) covers gaps when we do not know what to pray; such prayer can avert accidents, prevent suicides, and dispatch angels on assignment.
- The Widow Who Cried Out: Lessons from 2 Kings 4:1–7
- She opened her mouth. Silence would have meant death; she explained her situation specifically — her husband's piety, his death in debt, the creditor threatening to enslave her sons.
- She identified what she had. "Nothing … but a jar of oil." God always starts with what is in your hand.
- She obeyed the process. Gather vessels, shut the door, pour — divine multiplication required human participation and obedience.
- The oil ceased only when the vessels ran out — the limit of the miracle was the limit of her preparation (faith). Prepare more vessels; expect more.
- Result: total debt cancellation and ongoing sustenance — a complete turnaround from a single act of desperate, specific crying out.
- Parallel to Hannah (1 Samuel 1): both women reached a point of such desperation that their crying appeared extreme to onlookers, yet it was precisely this intensity that preceded breakthrough.
- Prayer Unlocks Resources Already Present in the Spirit Realm
- Three sermon takeaways given explicitly:
- God hears the cry of the desperate.
- Prayer is the doorway to divine intervention.
- With God all things are possible.
- The resources exist before the prayer; prayer opens spiritual eyes to see and then possess them.
- "Deep calls unto deep" (Psalm 42:7) — the depth of your prayer life corresponds to the depth of the provision you access; Jesus told Peter "launch into the deep" (Luke 5:4) for an abundant catch.
- Three sermon takeaways given explicitly:
- Hagar's Encounter: God Opens Eyes to the Well Already There (Genesis 21:14–19)
- Hagar was misunderstood, sent away, and at the point of death — yet God heard the covenant cry of the child (Ishmael was in Abraham's loins; the covenant made the cry distinctive).
- The well did not appear; it was already there — God opened her eyes to what already existed.
- Application: your promotion, your business, your healing is already in the region; prayer opens eyes to possess it.
- Contrast with Lot (Genesis 13): choosing by sight alone (the green plain) led to Sodom; Abraham chose by faith, and God told him to look in every direction — "as far as you can see, I have given it to you."
- Covenant Identity Amplifies the Cry
- Through Christ, believers enter the Abrahamic covenant (Galatians 3:13–14), so every prayer rises to the throne as a covenant cry — not merely a personal request.
- Generational blessing and generational curses are both real; prayer breaks cycles that background and bloodline have established.
- Don't serve the blessing; serve the God who gives it (Philippians 4:6–7).
Theological Insights
- Importunate Prayer / The Desperate Cry: Throughout Scripture, breakthrough frequently follows a cry of extremity — Israel in Egypt (Exodus 2:23–25), Hannah (1 Samuel 1:10–20), the blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46–52), the persistent widow (Luke 18:1–8). The sermon situates the widow of 2 Kings 4 and Hagar in this same theological tradition: God is not moved by polite requests alone but responds with special attention to the desperate, faith-filled cry of those who have no other recourse.
- Covenant Prayer: Galatians 3:13–14 teaches that Christ's redemption transfers the Abrahamic blessing to Gentile believers. This means every believer prays not as a stranger but as an heir (Romans 8:17). The sermon's observation that God heard the child's cry rather than Hagar's because "covenant speaks" reflects the biblical concept of hesed (Hebrew: חֶסֶד) — covenantal lovingkindness — which obligates God to act on behalf of those in covenant relationship.
- The "What Is in Your Hand?" Principle: God consistently works through what the petitioner already possesses — Moses' staff (Exodus 4:2), the widow's oil (2 Kings 4:2), the boy's five loaves (John 6:9). Divine multiplication begins with human surrender of the available, however small.
- Intercession and Angelic Activity: The sermon reflects a consistent biblical theme: prayer sets angels in motion (Daniel 10:12–13; Hebrews 1:14; Acts 12:5–11). Angels are described as "ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation," and Daniel's experience shows that the moment he began to pray, the answer was dispatched.
- Seeing and Possessing — Spiritual Vision as a Prerequisite: The repeated motif of "if you can see it, you can possess it" echoes God's word to Abraham in Genesis 13:14–15 ("Lift up your eyes … for all the land which you see I give to you") and to Joshua (Joshua 1:3). Spiritual vision is not wishful thinking but a faith faculty cultivated through prayer and the Word.
- Generational Patterns and Intercession: The sermon touches on the biblical concept of generational iniquity (Exodus 20:5) and its New Covenant counterpart — the freedom available in Christ (Galatians 5:1). Targeted, informed intercession can break patterns that recur across family lines.
- The Spirit's Intercession (Romans 8:26–27): Paul teaches that the Holy Spirit "intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words," compensating for human weakness in prayer. Praying in the Spirit (glossolalia used devotionally, as in 1 Corinthians 14:2, 4) allows the believer to pray beyond conscious knowledge — a resource the sermon applies to city-level and governmental intercession.
Word & Context Study
- "Cried out" (2 Kings 4:1) — Hebrew צָעַק (tsaʿaq): This verb appears throughout the Hebrew Bible specifically for a cry uttered in urgent distress — Israel's cry under Egyptian bondage (Exodus 2:23), the cry of the oppressed (Job 19:7), and here the widow's appeal to the prophet. It is not a quiet petition; it is a vocalized cry of desperation addressed to someone in authority who is able to help. The pastor's point that "your gentility is not doing anything" is linguistically grounded — tsaʿaq implies an assertive, expectant appeal, not a whispered request.
- "Sons of the Prophets" — a prophetic guild in ancient Israel: The phrase (bene ha-neviʾim in Hebrew) refers to communities of prophets associated with Elijah and Elisha (cf. 2 Kings 2:3, 5, 7; 4:1, 38; 6:1). These were not necessarily the biological children of prophets but disciples and apprentices who lived communally. The widow's husband was a member of this community; his fear of the Lord is attested (v. 1) and likely meant he served faithfully — making his death in debt all the more unjust. This background explains why the widow appealed directly to Elisha: the prophet bore a recognized pastoral and practical responsibility for the community around him.
- Debt-slavery in the ancient Near East: In the economic world of the Old Testament, a creditor could legally seize the children of a debtor and require them to work as debt-servants until the debt was repaid (cf. Leviticus 25:39–41; Nehemiah 5:1–5; Amos 2:6). This was not chattel slavery in the modern sense but was nonetheless devastating — children could be separated from their mother for years. The widow's crisis was therefore immediate, concrete, and socially catastrophic, which explains the urgency of her cry. Elisha's instruction to sell the oil and pay the debt resolved the situation within the legal-economic framework of the day.
- "Be anxious for nothing" (Philippians 4:6) — Greek μεριμνάω (merimnaō): The word translated "anxious" or "careful" in older versions describes a mind divided, pulled in competing directions by worry. Paul's antidote is not denial but redirection: "in everything by prayer and supplication (proseuché and deésis — general and specific petition) with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God." The pastor applies this to the widow's story: after you have cried out, fix your mind on Christ rather than on the problem, because anxiety is the enemy of the trust that releases divine intervention.
Application
- Make your cry specific and verbal. The widow told Elisha her exact situation — her husband's character, his death, the specific threat of debt-slavery. Vague, unexpressed need rarely produces specific, tangible breakthrough. Open your mouth; declare the situation before God with detail and faith.
- Build a culture of continuous prayer, not just emergency prayer. Cultivate prayer in the car, in the shower, in bed, on the bus — not only when a crisis arrives. A practiced prayer life means you already have the relationship and the habit when the desperate moment comes.
- Pray in the Spirit when you have no words. Romans 8:26 is a practical resource, not only a theological statement. When you are too tired, too overwhelmed, or simply do not know what to pray, praying in the Spirit allows the Holy Spirit to intercede through you at a level beyond your conscious knowledge — potentially covering people and situations you are unaware of.
- Intercede for your city, your government, and the people around you. Stop complaining about what you see in your community and begin praying over it. The deterioration of neighborhoods, the rise of addiction, and the moral confusion of a generation are not merely political problems — they are prayer deficits. Every believer is assigned to their region.
- Start with what you have. The widow had "nothing … but a jar of oil." God never asks for what you don't have; He asks what is already in your hand. Offer it — your time, your gift, your small obedience — and trust the God of multiplication to do what only He can do.
- Prepare vessels proportionate to your expectation. The oil multiplied only as long as vessels were available. Prepare — emotionally, practically, and spiritually — for the answer you are believing God for. Small preparation signals small faith; large preparation signals expectant faith.
- After praying, give God time to speak. Don't jump immediately into noise and activity after prayer. Worship, rest, and listen. Dreams, visions, ideas, and divine direction often come in the quiet that follows intercession.
- Do not serve the blessing; serve the God who gives it. When
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Amen. So we started a series, Shiloh, my God will answer.
Somebody shout Shiloh, my God will answer.
Hallelujah. So today we are going to go to part two of Shiloh, my God will answer.
And I pray that you will just tune in with me, open your Bible, take your paper,
because I have to tell you that when we pray, God answers.
You know, when we pray, that's why he said his church shall be called what?
A house of prayer.
So if we come here, our assignment is to do what?
To pray.
See, it's not so much sometimes even only about us.
We pray for the government.
We pray for the president.
We pray for the city that we live in.
We pray for the children.
We pray for families.
Because, see, do you know that if we don't pray, what do you think will happen?
The enemy will take over.
you know when we came here to pray the other day one powerful man of god was here she was just
saying to me she said i don't know why some of the things that i did when i was young i don't
know why i did them how many people have been there before that you did something she was like
what was i doing doing you know there was a guy that i dated in high school i tell that story all
the time. One day, I was, look at the whole church, amen. You know, because some people
take apostasy even day. You know that one time my children even call me and say, mom,
we were talking about all these musicians. Then my children, hey mommy, so you know my
Kajase? And I said, ah, what are you talking about? I said, we used to write their songs
and we used to memorize them and sing it. What do you guys think? Everything you've
done we've done it before amen you guys are now taking it to the next level which is called digital
amen but we did it amen maybe our parents they didn't catch us but we did it amen but i tell you
that let me tell you something mr frank i was in love with this guy who huh but let me tell you
something when i one day i was working married with my one child i'm working with my husband we
in the uh we went to the african market in the bronze and i met this guy and my eyes just opened
in the spirit and i said i can't believe i was in love with this guy
so my husband said so he said hello then my husband said do you know that guy i said no
hallelujah i said no i don't know him anyway because since have you noticed that some of the
things we did is because sometimes nobody was praying for us since i'm telling you and and some
of us we have come to this place because somebody prayed for us so sometimes you make some mistakes
sometimes you don't see clearly because you need prayer amen hallelujah so today i need to i need
you to understand that in silo our god answers our our prayer and since any difficulty that you have
since i'm telling you any challenge that you have right now maybe you are going through some stress
maybe there is something that you are looking for you and say father why sometimes we are children
of just just because you are you are a child of god doesn't mean that you are not going to go
through challenges and difficulties because as long as you are on this earth since i'm telling
you any door that opens from the adversary it happens it hits everybody but it covers the people
that are covered by prayer oh hallelujah hallelujah because the word of god already told us that we
are not fighting against what flesh and blood we are fighting against principalities and powers
you know sometimes this listen i i look at some things and i say you know we did it because
sometimes our generation even background you you know that because it comes to visit
do you know that something from our generation come to visit so the young girl will be in the
community all of a sudden that girl is in the neighborhood and everybody's sleeping with and
nobody says who is praying for her we don't think that this is the time that we need to do a pray
for that person you know all of us do listen right now everybody's talking about president trump but
you know that we are not supposed to talk about him we are supposed to do what pray for him because
every decision that he's making affects all of us hallelujah you look at your city and you look and
you see prostitutes hanging out you see alcohol right now we are next to an alcohol shop you see
people coming sometimes the bottles are all over but we don't know that we don't say that oh my
god alcoholism is taking over our city we need to pray for our city amen because the word of god
says that anytime we pray there is an answer he says everybody that prays there's an answer so i
want us to look at the first uh psalms chapter the book of psalm chapter 50 verse 15. let's all go
there the book of psalm if you get there just shout amen the book of psalms chapter 50 verse 15.
because i've noticed that when you call we will call for prayer most most people don't want to come
i i maybe people are busy with work but i'm telling you that the church itself is a house
of prayer if you don't pray we don't pray the city will not change since listen if you don't
pray our children will not change listen i need you to understand that the same attack that you
went through your children will go through the same thing but they need to be covered by prayer
so that when the attack comes something will resist because some of the things that we did
sometimes when i sit down i say why did i do that thing for what was leading me to do that thing
what was i thinking but at that moment i did it anyhow and you don't even know sometimes you find
yourself in a particular place that you are not supposed to be there but you find yourself there
anyhow oh somebody being in the wrong place at the wrong time oh and then you come under the wrong
influence but i believe that if there is prayer prayer can push you back oh somebody hallelujah
and you are able to move yourself out of whatever the enemy is able to is planning and plotting for
your life somebody say i believe in prayer i believe in prayer hallelujah so we need to change
says all of us stop complaining and rather pray yes hallelujah because the attack that we see our
children going through is because they need prayer when you see anybody going through anything listen
people somebody don't want to come to church somebody do you know that they need prayer
because sometimes our center person some people will get up and no energy to even get up and get
ready to come to church what if you were from the house of judah that they were cursed after the
10th generation that they will not go to the house of the lord do you know that there's
sometimes the people there are cases in their background not to be in church when they come to
church they'll find something to get them out there i know someone they've gone to church more
than it's like different churches up to five times i know anytime they go to this church they'll find
some problem the last time they came to i said have you noticed that it's not the people it's you
sometimes your background don't even want you to be in church so when you come to church the first
thing oh i have a problem with the usher oh then you jump from usher to the members then before you
know it is the praise and worship team that didn't sing the song i like then the next thing you're
now the pastor they preach and i think the message is about me oh it's actually the devil that is
trying to pull you out hallelujah so now we the saints listen when you are driving even when you
are walking around you think of somebody pray for them oh hallelujah when somebody comes into your
mind begin to do what pray for them because all of us need prayer amen psalm 50 verse 15 the word
of god tells us call upon me in the day of what trouble i would deliver you and you shall glorify
me so god is telling us that when we are in trouble you know all of us have a tendency the
first thing that happens to us when we're in trouble is pick up your phone why let me call
resist and tell them but the word of god is telling us that when we are in trouble what do we do
call on to him and he will do what and he would deliver us because you know what this god is
telling us i don't want you to have options sometimes we have so many options you don't
know he's saying i don't want i want you to call on to me and that is with the way you build your
relationship with him and that is the way you do know that listen and sometimes you know when god
answers i pray we don't even know i know somebody who went to a church they prayed with her not
knowing she had two three churches she's going so when they finished what the answer came she went
to one place and what do you call it and was testifying when the other church the pastor
from the other church was sitting in that service they said amen but he said in the world because
sometimes you don't even know who did it amen but i need you to understand that god is the almighty
who does it so he said come to me when you are in trouble sometimes you are child of god you are
paying your tights all right but you can find a day where you come to realize that you are not
able to pay what pay your bills what are you doing that's when you cry unto him and begin to give him
the word of god that says that i shall supply all your knees according to his riches in glory father
this is the word that you gave me i have been given i have been tithing i have been sowing
father where is he and god will make sure that he'll deliver you amen if you find yourself in
sickness and infirmity what says we should do what call on to him amen when you go to the job place
and somebody is setting you up some god said do what call on to him when you find yourself in
accident and incident somebody what are you doing call on to him so it means that since we have that
is why i'm telling the church that cultivate that that attitude that you pray everywhere yes
in your shower you are praying
you get up in the morning the first thing that has to come out of your mouth is prayer
amen
you are driving to work that is your opportunity to do what?
to pray
my goal, I was telling the praise and worship team
when you lay down in bed and you lay in there
and your eyes open what do you do?
you pray a little bit, you fall asleep again
and when you find yourself awake
because why? you are communing with the father
and I have some people that will say
but I can't find nothing to pray
can you just pray for me
if you can't find
nothing to pray pray for me
hallelujah
because it means that there is something
that we can always pray for
hallelujah and he said that
he God he will do what he will answer
God is the God of
answers and if you look at
this word of God there is
opportunity for you see that God was
answering everybody's prayer
look at the word of God
from Genesis to Revelation
anytime there is a trouble that is what i tell some people how you build your faith in god that
anytime you are in trouble there's opportunity for god to answer yes oh you are not excited about this
anytime you find yourself in trouble that is opportunity for god to answer that is the faith
level that you have to have anytime i'm in trouble i'm giving god opportunity to show himself
hallelujah the people of israel when they were in the land of egypt they begin to do what cry out
by reason of their bondage and the lord god what heard them and answered and send them a deliverer
so if they were sitting there enjoying their slavery and their bondage they won't see any change
so you have to be a child of god who cultivate the attitude of prayer i love prayer push yourself
until you find yourself being that prayer uh what do you call it um blowing all kinds of prayer yes
And let me tell you, we pray all kinds of prayer.
I don't have, listen, when you pray in the spirit, I don't know what I ought to pray for.
But the spirit make an intercession.
Through me, with groanings, that cannot be uttered.
Oh, my God.
So when you find yourself like, okay, I'm driving a bus, I don't have no prayer point.
Pray in the spirit.
Oh, my God.
What are you doing?
Because that prayer can go to the government.
Maybe there was an accident that was set up for somebody who delivered that person.
Oh.
maybe somebody was about to commit suicide that you don't know oh somebody God delivered them
an angel let me tell you I had it two weeks ago before we started the fast I was telling the
pastors I had this vision where I was sitting there and all of a sudden somebody got up and
said we want to kill her but then I see this man and you know that when I saw the pastor's face
he was my first pastor when I got saved in Ghana he's the one that I saw pastor Takiyaboy
and he said you dare not so at that time he was praying and don even know but that is what sometimes people come to me and say apostas i saw you a dream and you are doing this i post no because we are praying And when we are praying the word of God says anytime that you pray angels move Then angels begin to move
Oh, somebody, hallelujah.
Oh, somebody, hallelujah.
Oh, somebody, hallelujah.
Anytime you pray, angels move.
And when they move, they don't just move.
They move on assignment.
Oh, somebody, hallelujah.
So I need to encourage you to go to another level of prayer.
In the name of Jesus.
amen so the word of god says let's go to second king chapter 4 verse 1 to 7 and we're going to
see this widow if this would have shut up she would have died if this widow kept quiet you know
listen it's good to have a quiet spirit but i'm telling you that it is good to know when to speak
up oh hallelujah oh somebody's good to for you to have one a quiet spirit but it's good you better
know how to do what speak up because if you don't speak up say something nobody will know your
problem yes you know that and and heaven wants you to speak because communication you have to
open your mouth see mommy just came to church she come and see jen we are looking at her she's like
mommy okay and will we know the problem no no and some of us we won't go to read our mind
but he's yes but he says open your mouth oh he said declare a thing and it shall be one
established so if you don't declare will they come no somebody said oh me i'm praying in my head
you're okay hallelujah oh hallelujah right now i sit i sit in here i come and i sit here
minister george i come and sit here and i'm looking at him he's looking at me
but meanwhile i could just open my mouth and say minister can you give me water
oh apostle let me give you them water so communication you got to open your mouth
hallelujah amen declare a thing and it shall be established amen hallelujah so this woman
in the word of god it tells us in second kings chapter four we are going to start from verse
1 to 7. It says, a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elijah saying,
your servant, my husband is dead. And you know that your servant fear the Lord. And the creditor
is come to take my two sons to be his slaves. So Elijah said to her, what shall I do for you?
tell me what you do you have in the house and she said your servant has nothing in the house but a
jar of oil then he said go borrow vessels from everywhere from all your neighbors empty vessels
do not gather just a few and when you have come in you shall shut the door behind you and your
sons then pour it into all those vessels and set aside the four ones so she went from him and shut
the door behind her and her sons who brought the vessels to her and she poured it out now it came
to pass when the vessels were full that she said to her son bring me another vessel and he said to
her there is not an another vessel so the oil cease listen to me then she came and told the man
of god and he said go sell the oil pay your debt and you and your son live on the rest hallelujah
somebody said there is power in speaking out so the word of god is telling us today that there
was a woman who was one of the wives of the sons of prophets and she did what she cried out
she opened her mouth and did what cried out so that says something that's why i was telling her
when we're meeting here during these seven days your gentility is not doing anything
some of you you are too gentle for breakthrough because you think that this thing is about no since
faith moves yes and when you're when hannah was in desperation when she come she came to a place
where she said benina has been abusing me enough oh when she came to a place where she said this
barrenness need to come to an end amen the word of god said that she cried out until
eli thought she was drunk i need to ask somebody what is the kind of crying now that you cry out
but people to think that you are drunk my god so this woman found herself listen she was the
wife of the prophet who that is not doing anything for her what is going to do something for you in
this season is when you know how to open your mouth oh somebody hallelujah he said open up your mouth
wide and i will do what oh and i will do what i will fill it so this mouth need to be open wide
for god to fill it and have did you see the strategy of this woman is the same strategy like
hannah when she cried out she didn't just because sometimes listen you can be crying now for uh for
money that but you need healing sometimes we ask for the wrong things she began to explain the
situation to god father my husband was what a servant of the most high god he feared god but
he died in poverty means that this man did not have the faith to bring what pass on a generational
blessing somebody say it will never be me oh somebody say it will never be me
it was a prophet all right but he died and his family they were coming to pick up his children
to become slaves have you ever seen rich people die and the next year you see their children
begging don't even have school fees but when they were alive they were blessed since i need to tell
somebody generational blessing is the only one you can pass on from generation to generation
hallelujah so the man of god said to him what do you have since that is what since i remember that
we were in this church when uh was some kind of famine going on people were losing their jobs
people didn't have anything and people would go and say oh give me this no and they were saying
what do you have and people but it's true what do you have do you know that all of us have something
that god can use she said i don't have anything i have only this little bit of oil my god and
said begin to gather vessels hallelujah begin to do the work oh the letter that you have begin to
do her do the work with it so since if she this woman did not cry out and come before the lord
god almighty the direction would not have come he said shut the door hallelujah shut the door and
begin to pour and the word of god said that as this woman kept pouring as she pouring she will
send her children to go and bring another vessel she'll begin to pour that will be full oh somebody
the god of multiplication begin to visit her oh when she shut the door and she begin to pour the
god of multiplication sat in saying some you got to move for something to happen if you want
something to happen you gotta move so now we have a church that says we pay tithes and nothing is
happening i'm telling you if you pay tight he don't give you money nobody's going to knock your
door and give you money but the assignment is that when you pay time he said that i will open the
windows of heaven and pour you a blessing there will be no room enough to receive it means that
god will open you doors oh somebody doors for breakthrough oh somebody doors for favor oh
somebody business doors to open somebody you will meet your divine helper somebody you will meet
somebody that will help you somebody that is the assignment of god so when you give he gives you
favor but not that you're not coming to this church and give to this and expect the same
check to give it to you that's not how it works oh this is your altar so when you give to the
altar what happened is that he opened doors all of a sudden or something you meet somebody somebody
say hey yeah i have this thing for you today i was so blessed i'm coming with pastor mary and she said
i have already started seeing the restoration ah you are not crappy don't be jealous so clap your
hands for jesus hallelujah hallelujah she said i'll begin to see the what the restoration he said
he will not see the rain you will not see the wind but your valley shall be filled with water
since i'm telling you you can't cheat god he said i will supply all your knees
oh according to your rich my riches in glory oh somebody by what christ jesus there's a woman here
i'm not going to point her out but i remember she maritally she was sewing sometimes we think that
when we sow since anytime you sow you shall surely reap she was sewing in her marriage i knew her as
an usher she was ushering doing everything that she did doing and the man you know sometimes you
with somebody and they are doing devious things leave them alone focus on your god oh hallelujah
i am a witness that today the property that they did not put her name on she only had to pay i
think it's one dollar or something the lawyer said give him this and your name will be on there
you see how god does but meantime all this time she was just paying her tithe
be careful about nothing philippians let's go to philippians 4 6. because sometimes we are in the
body but we care so much this woman she cried all you have to do is cry out mommy you don't know how
your destiny is going to be but i know that when you cry out the lord god almighty will answer
hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah philippians chapter 4 verse 6 let's go there
philippians anybody read it and the lord shower he said what be careful about
Oh, but in what?
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Verse 7.
Uh-huh.
Understanding.
Uh-huh.
Through Christ Jesus.
Hallelujah.
Be careful about that, but put your mind.
So after you have prayed, after you have praised, what happened?
Put your mind on Jesus.
don't shift since i'm telling you that is your source he said i am the vine and you are the
branches so don't serve the blessing don't don't don't think that just because you got a good job
that you don't need the god that is the problem that we have don't serve the blessing serve the
god who gives you all the blessing hallelujah hallelujah so this woman what what happened she
cried out and and amazingly what did the man of god said he said go sell the oil and pay for all
what all your debt i decree and declare over this house oh that every debt is cancelled in the mighty
name of jesus oh somebody credit card debt somebody shout it is cancelled in the mighty name of jesus
lord god oh our mortgage is somebody this one cancelled in the mighty name of jesus hallelujah
and this woman became dead free that day just because she did what she cried out
so when you cry out god will answer i want you to begin to write this in your notes
one god hears the cry of the desperate sometimes that's what i'm telling you your prayer is not
desperate enough your fat listen you get to a place of father god this one if you don't help
me i don't have anybody have you prayed that prayer before father this one if you don't help me
i don't have anybody because america has given us choices we have choices to for if you don't
have money for your grocery you can go to a place and pick up food that is the problem in america
but i need you to cultivate the attitude where you can cry as the father if you don't give me this one
i have nowhere to go oh he has the prayer of what the death spray hallelujah number two write this
down prayer is the doorway to divine intervention so the intervention that you get with prayer
it's not like speaking to a friend whatever answer you hear is divine hallelujah hallelujah
prayer is the doorway to divine intervention number three with god all things are what possible
since when you take notes in church don't just take notes in church to take notes
that during the week you meditate on it hallelujah but with god all things are what possible
hallelujah hallelujah because since you know why sometimes our faith level goes up and down
because god has resources we can see with the physical realm if you look at it in the physical all i see is this man sitting here in blue and his top but you know that in the spirit realm oh somebody
called me they just purchased this apartment in the in in ghana and they were calling me and all
of a sudden i opened my eyes they think they just purchased a thing in from and god but god opened
my eyes and it was land a huge land they were tilting but this person thought they just purchased
an apartment but god said to me no you see what faith is so since we have if you don't take care
you just be standing let me tell you something oh hallelujah hallelujah so god i pray that god
will do what open our eyes then we will see because if you don't see you think you are limited
and you can go according to your vision hallelujah so that is why i said seeing eyes and hearing yes
is from the lord when god open your eyes you begin to see that this is not just a garment
this is a garment of praise oh oh are you hearing me when god open your eyes you see your bank
account it's not just ordinary my god it's supernatural a thousand dollars in your hands
it's not the same as a thousand dollars in the in somebody's hands oh my god because that thousand
can become a million oh somebody because grace has come upon him oh somebody when grace come upon you
everything shifts oh somebody oh somebody when grace come upon you your health system is shift
oh somebody when grace come upon you finances shift or somebody when grace
circle upon you your everything shifts but we human beings we are so used to seeing things in
the world physical realm in the physical realm there's nothing i can come in here and just say oh
who is here nobody came right that is the physical realm but in the spiritual realm there are angels
among us oh you can look at your bank account in the physical realm oh i only have a thousand
after i pay my bills i'm done but in spiritual realm is businesses oh somebody hallelujah
ah orphanages oh somebody oh hallelujah that is what is in the spirit realm so we need to pray for
god to do and open my eyes hallelujah so that we can see where god is taking because until you can
see you cannot possess it hallelujah when you can see it you can possess it hallelujah oh hallelujah
oh so what what happens is like since listen to me there are resources in the spirit realm
what unlocks the resources to bring it into the physical realm is prayer
are you hearing me somebody are sitting here you are a million dollar uh business oh
and the only way you can unlock that thing is for you to enter deep into prayer and the word of
god said deep collect unto what unto deep so the deeper oh that is what he said to peter he said
launch onto the deep for what for a drought so that thing that you need and you need to go deeper
Oh, deeper in prayer
Deeper in the word
Oh
Because everything is in the word
Faith stands for the word
So as long as I can find that word
As long as I can believe that word
Oh, somebody, as long as I know
That that word is worth for me
Somebody, it will surely come to pass
In the name of Jesus
I want us to go to Genesis chapter 21
Hallelujah
Turn to your neighbor and say
what are you seeing oh i am hard to is this is it uh hallelujah is the air on whoo
genesis chapter 21 let's go there thank you lord is the fan where is that fan that i had here
genesis chapter 21 i want to because since i'm telling you it's our vision that is the problem
the problem is not that god has not blessed us the problem is not that god has not supplied our
knees oh are you hearing me the problem is not god has not uh has not given us the resources i need
to tell everybody that here let me tell you mommy you see money changing hands but no have you seen
that there's any rain or money on this earth before everything you need is right here you got
to see it everything you see when somebody just get up one day and become a millionaire do you see
that the millions just rain in their home no every god would just if you see it you can possess it
so when you are praying what happens is go begin to open your spiritual eyes
and then you can see it hallelujah hallelujah and as long as you can see it you can do what
you can possess it if you can't see it you're just so now you can go he said well listen go
look upon the face of the earth and there was darkness in the deep god did he say what did he
begin to say lie so since what i'm calling you to a place of faith that now when you begin to see
zero bank account you see millions oh that is what faith people people think they are crazy but they
just they are just believing the word of god he shall supply all my needs according to his riches
in glory by christ jesus i don't go by what i see oh i don't go by what i hear i just go by what the
word of god saying and the word of god says i am blessed oh somebody the word of god says i am
healed oh the word of god says i am delivered in the name of jesus so let's look at this encounter
in genesis chapter 21 let's go there genesis chapter 21 starting from verse 14. i was just
diving in this word my god and i'll just begin to say father if we can just see ah genesis chapter 21
just pray in the spirit for a minute because sometimes you can't even receive the word of
god like it's supposed to be since i'm telling you sometimes when you're about to read the word
of god begin to pray in the spirit before you open the word of god because you begin to god
will magnify the word of god and then you begin to see the word of god how you're supposed to see
it since because it's not the word of god you just read but it's the word of god that you believe
If you come to a place of believing, all things are possible to them that do what?
That believe.
Hallelujah.
So Genesis chapter 21 is starting from verse 14.
It says,
So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and putting it on her shoulder.
He gave it to her and the boy to Hagar.
and sent her away then she departed and wandered in the wilderness of besheba
and the water in the skin was used up and she placed the boy under one of the shrubs
then she went and sat down across from him at the distance of about a bull shark for she said to
herself let me not see the death of the boy so that she sat opposite him and lifted her voice
and wept and god heard the voice of the lord then the angel of god called to hagar out of heaven
and said to her what else you hagar fear not for the god for god has heard the voice of the lord
where he is arise lift up the lad and hold him with your hand for i will make him what a great nation
then god opened his her eyes and she saw a well of water and she went and filled the skin with water
and gave the lad a drink oh
this this encounter is when he was running a what let now abraham listen sometimes you know that we
can be misunderstood oh some do you know that sometimes we feel like we've been set up oh have
you ever been like been in a situation where somebody come for you for to you for help and
then you realize that you now become the problem jesus so that this situation sarah couldn't have
a child this heger was just a servant minding her own business i don't even think she even thought
of herself to become a madam but sarah herself called her into a problem that's why sometimes
you have to pray because you can be called into a problem and said come stay with go and sleep with
my husband so that my husband can have a child through you so i believe that that woman was not
the only servant so i believe that there was some love that she had for this girl
but listen immediately that child came and they had the child what happened the strife begin to
begin to happen in the home so now sarah goes to her husband and say no you got to send this child
away have you somebody are you here have you been sent away oh how many of us have been sent away
before oh hallelujah so now she was sent away now when she was sent away what happened now oh my god
do you know the amazing thing about this
if you're a man here be careful about women
I'm saying it again
if you're a man here do her
oh if you're a man here do her
you got to be praying
because she's the same one that just said
go go go into my maid
go into my maid
but you know that the amazing thing about it is
Sarah when she saw
the word of God said she saw
that this what do you call it Ishmael
was teasing, making fun of
Isaac and said
this child has to go.
Do you know that when Abraham
went to God, God said listen to your wife.
I'm telling you.
Let me tell you.
Let me tell you.
God did not say, yes Sarah, look at what
you have brought to the family. No.
God said, Abraham, listen
to your wife. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. So now,
you see, because the covenant speaks.
So even on the way
when they were crying it wasn't just the kid crying it was the kid and the mother the woman
was even crying to the point that she said i don't want to see my child die but did you hear the word
of god look at what the word of god said the god heard the cry of the child not the mother because
covenant since i need to tell you that there is a power in what covenant then the word of god tells
us that christ has redeemed us from the curse of the lord galatians chapter oh
be made a curse for us it is written one curse is everyone that hung on the tree that the blessing
of abraham comes upon the gentiles through christ jesus so you your cry father help me
it sounds straight to the throne of grace
when you cry out and you are covenant child of god what do you think it's a different cryo
heaven hears it somebody else might cry because two people were crying can you just imagine but
god had one when he went to the mother and he said i hear your cry he said what i've heard the cry of
the lord jesus oh because that that child is in the loins of abraham can you just imagine so i need
to tell somebody you are sitting here when you receive jesus christ my god you enter into the
loins of abraham oh somebody hallelujah my god so that you can tap into the abrahamic blessing
blessing the city oh blessing the country all nations will call you blessed oh somebody shout
i am blessed oh somebody i am blessed so now when you read any blessing that was put upon abraham
you claim that blessing so now he said when you cry i will answer so somebody you are sitting here
every cry you cry god will answer oh hallelujah my god and so now and the part that i want us to
focus on right now is verse 19. verse 19.
and he said what then god did what open her eyes and she saw what a well of water
and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the lord a drink listen to me god opened her
eyes so we are sitting here there are things that are in this region that we can see poverty will not let you see it do you know that there are people that are going around saying i can find the job but you know that people are saying now there too many jobs i
don't know which one to pick you people are not excited to me you are not excited today
do you hear me so every resource every open door or somebody my god mama any gateway of prosperity
any gateway of healing any gateway of blessing god will open your eyes
and as long as this will open your eyes you will see it and possess it
hegar was what all this time do you think the world just appeared no it was there
my god so you are sitting here everything you need for you to go to your next level is right there
somebody your promotion is right there let me tell somebody hallelujah ma ma ma ma ma let me tell you
something they don't hey listen have you noticed that they don't just when you when you get promoted
on the job they don't create jobs jobs it's there it's there all this time then all of a sudden they
will say oh we've noticed that we need somebody to walk about it was there all this time me ma ma ma ma
god open listen sometimes so when you are praying he's not just open your eyes he will open the eyes
of your ceo you open the eyes of your ceo you open your eyes so that my god they'll begin to see
make a great and opening somebody i declare over you ah that in this season there is an opening for
promotion that will come to you in the name of jesus may god open the eyes of the people that
are supposed to be your divine helpers so that they can see how to help you in the name of jesus
my god so one day abraham was going with lots they got to a place
abraham were looking they were looking abraham said you know they started having strife
so when the strife was going on abraham just look at lots and say listen because abraham knew that
he carried the blessing since i want you to lift your faith up to know that you are somebody shout
i am a carrier of the blessing i have no reason to fail because abraham knew that he was the
carry of the blessing when they got to a place there was strife so that's what says don't debate
with people unnecessary because the joy of the lord is your strength so if people are debating
with you what are they doing you are pulling your strength away somebody hallelujah because you know
that your source is the king of kings and the lord of law when abraham knew that he was a source when
they got to the place when they started fighting he said ah if you go to the north i'll go to the
sir if you go to the east i'll go to the west i'm not about to argue with you here oh somebody said
do you do you do you do you do you do you do you hallelujah and what happened and look at it the
word of god said that lot looked and the place was green oh he thought that was the place of the
blessing can you just imagine he didn't even wait for abraham is because you see the word of god
says that lord was blessed for abraham's sake somebody i'm telling you that the company is
blessed because of you oh oh somebody that business is blessed what somebody said because of me
somebody said new jersey is blessed because of me so now instead of him saying oh brother abraham
you are the one brother abraham that have brought me this far so you know you pick and i pick what
did he do ah the word of god said he just looked at that green grass he said me i'm going to prosper
even than him but he didn't realize that that is no no no no you are seen in the physical oh you
got the sea in the spirit oh because you know where he picked became sodom and gomorrah i mean
the word of god said immediately he left god begin to speak to abraham look to the south
Oh, to look to the north.
Oh, look to the east.
Look to the west.
As long as you can see it,
I have given it to you.
So you see, when we pray,
that's what I was telling you this week,
that when you pray, don't just get up and move.
Give yourself, because you see,
America has pushed that to a place where everybody's running home.
But I need you to settle.
Hallelujah.
After you have prayed, give yourself time where you can just say,
you know, sometimes, listen, I just put the worship on.
I don't even have a prayer.
And I'm just listening to the worship.
and then i would doze off and as i doze off i begin to hear god speaking i begin to see visions
i begin to see dreams he begins to give me ideas oh somebody in this season i declare over this
house that our eyes are open oh i declare over this house now we see visions and dreams oh somebody
i i declare over this house that we have spiritual ideas we have i break through ideas
or somebody said it is coming to me hallelujah so you are here sometimes listen you might feel
look at what happened to this and then what she go sustain them with this water whatever they needed
so you are here i don't know what you need from god but if you will cry out onto him the desperate
cry of hannah this desperate cry oh somebody mama mama that desperate cry of hagar she was misunderstood
it felt like she was set up somebody felt something you feel like you are failing but i'm telling you
that if you cry out onto the lord oh he will open your eyes he will give you new ideas he will give
you new interventions he will lead you to the right people and your destiny will change forever
in the name of jesus hallelujah oh hallelujah oh somebody hallelujah oh somebody hallelujah
oh somebody hallelujah
hallelujah because say something you there are breakthroughs that are open the powerful man of
god said the graveyard is the place that is filled with resources because it's right next to us we
can see i want you to rise up it's right next to us we can see my god some of us need to see something
oh somebody you are not excited this morning i don't know somebody who did what they said did
you sleep on the other side somebody sleep on that side tonight ah hallelujah because i need
to do what see something you know that when you begin to see you can even work differently
sometimes you you can see resources right in front of you cannot touch it because you can't
even see it you know what business ideas business inventions open doors great grace
oh somebody are you hearing me ma mama but you cannot see it because as long as you can see it
you are able to do what? Possess it.
Because he said to Abraham,
look to the north, look to the south,
look to the east,
look to the west.
As long as you can see it,
I can possess it.
Open your mouth and begin to pray.
I need you to open your mouth and pray in the spirit.
The
The
Alabandi, Abandi, Abandi, Ababi
I love you.
my
Alaba alaba alaba
Ali ande mashaan de yabandu mabee
Uri ande mosundo yabandu yababee
Ashan alaba kona yabandu yababee
Ali ande mosundo yabandu yababee
in the name of Jesus Lord. We are crying out unto the Lord. He said we left the death break ground.
God said to Abraham look to the north, the south, the east and the west. As long as you can see, you will possess it.
We are praying to the Lord God Almighty. Father my God open my eyes to see all my resources. Open your mouth.
Open your mouth. Some are they crying. Crying.
Oh Father my God, open my eyes, open my eyes, open my spiritual eyes.
Father my God, that I will see the resources.
I love it
I love it
I love it
I love it
I love it
I want to say that breakthrough around me
I want to say that baby around me
Father, force me to see the blessings around me.
Father, open my eyes to God.
Just as you open the eyes of my Father, my God.
Father, my God, to see the world around me.
Father, open my eyes to God.
Father, to see all the worlds around me.
In the name of Jesus.
You are praying, but I need you to take your prayer higher.
Listen, Hagar was in the point of death.