Gateway Church's Podcast
Releasing the Prayer of Anointing
Since Pastor Robert's not here we have the special, special treat to be able to have one of our favorites and he is a man that's been with us the number of time and every time he comes I just received so much. I'm telling you man he is unbelievably gifted and God's anointed him with a great word for us this weekend. He is a pastor at Faithful Center Bible Church in Los Angeles, California. He's also the vice chairman of King's University along with Pastor Robert is the chairman of King's University. That's Jack Hayford's University in seminary. He's been a part of that. He is a phenomenal speaker written several several books. In fact every summer he is actually teaching at Oxford University. So phenomenally gifted man of God has a great word for us today so I want us to give him a phenomenal gateway. Welcome Dr. Ken Omer. Ken would you come? Come on up bud and let's bless him today. Come on. Oh praise the Lord, praise the Lord, praise the Lord. This time only the folk that have been blessed give the Lord a hand of praise want you. Come on Nick you do better than that. Amen. Wow I was just sitting there thinking I have a few friends who have a very few people, few friends who have second homes and they they spend time at their main home in the LA then they go to their other home. This is my other home. This is this gateway is my other home and it's an honor to be here. Last time I was in this building my son and I were giving the grand tour with Pastor Roberts that we had hard hats on. This place did not look like this. I'm telling you did not look like this but wow it turns into the first six to you and say how cool is this? Is this cool? Praise the Lord. We want to welcome those who are worshiping with us at NRH and at Frisco. We're going here's a shout out to NRH and Frisco. Here's a LA shout out everybody over here saying hey what's happening over the NRH and Frisco, praise the Lord. Come with me to the book of second chronicles, come with me to the book of second chronicles. Wow it is so great to be here and to be a part of the things that God is doing. I pray that you continually and by that I mean every day. I pray that you do not allow one day to come and go without spending some time thanking God for your pastor, the pastoral team that will give leadership here, the men and women who must stand before God one day and give an account for your soul. I look at the great things that God is doing through Gateway but into the othermost parts of the world. Pastor Robert is in Korea this weekend and it is because of the anointing and the favor that God has rested on his life and on this house that is far far too big to be contained here in Dallas and as you've heard just this week he'll be ministering in Korea want you to be in prayer for him and for the team that's there but recognizing that what God is doing here in Dallas is now reaching literally around the world. Second Chronicles chapter 6 we're going to jump in there at about verse 20. A couple of years ago I was here and I share it with you story of an old preacher, old preacher who one day after service on a Sunday slowly walked down the steps of his country church with a kind of a tattered Bible in one hand and a worn old robe in the other hand and he slowly made his way down the steps pondering the activities of the day and as he did so a little boy little boy rode by on a bicycle and he saw this old preacher coming out of the church house and little boy put his brakes on and turned around and came back and as the pastor was making his way to the to his car little boy called out and little boy said hey mister hey hey mister hey mister did you just come out of that church hey mister hey hey hey did you just come out of that church hey mister is God in there hey is God in that church old man pondering thought about that for a minute little boy yelled again hey mister hey did you just come out of that church hey mister is God in there is God in that church oh preacher took a moment and scratched his head looked at the little boy and said son sometimes i wonder little boy while we let the old preacher say hey mister hey preacher hey is God in that church or preacher scratched his head and said son sometimes i wonder maybe today as you leave in our age or maybe as you leave frisk or maybe as you leave the worship center here and and someone will see you leaving this facility and they'll recognize that maybe you're leaving this church and maybe and maybe there'll be a little boy who'll shout out to you hey lady hey hey mister is God in that church is God in Frisco hey is God in in our age that's a pretty big building lady is God in that church old preacher said son sometimes i won Solomon stands before the people of God in the temple at the time of the dedication of this great magnificent facility to the glory of God and he stands and he lifts his hands before the people and he prays and in his prayer consecrating that place as a place of worship he prays a series of hypothetical probabilities he he prays a prayer structured in a unique way he prays Lord if then if this happens then would you and if this kind of person comes then would you and if they pray this then would you a series of hypothetical probabilities and as we zoom in and allow our sanctified imagination to over hear this prayer we soon recognize that he is praying a prayer for the prayers of the prayers who will pray in that place you guys didn't get it let me try over here he prays a prayer and actually actually he's praying a prayer for the prayers that will be prayed by the prayers in that place you guys got it he is anticipating the kind of prayers and the kinds of prayers that the prayers will pray in that place and in doing so he releases a kind of prayer anointing on that house i i i've come today as we've gathered at Frisco and in NRH and here i've gathered to ask God to release in this house a prayer anointing that seeks to anticipate the kinds of people and the kinds of prayers that the prayers will pray in this place pick me up at verse 20 and let's listen in on Solomon's prayer he says Lord i pray that your eyes may be open toward this temple day and night toward the place where you said you would put your name that you may hear the prayer which your servant makes toward this place and may you hear the supplications of your servant and of the people Israel when they pray toward this place here from heaven your dwelling place here it is and when you hear forgive everyone say forgive hey lady hey mister is God in this house if God is in this house it's a place of forgiveness Solomon anticipates that the kinds of people who will be drawn to this place will include some who need forgiveness this house is not a museum of spiritual perfection this is not a place where you come to walk down the corridors and to to perceive and to look at the display of God's spiritual perfection through the lives of the people in here this is not where God displays his his holy green berets these are not all this is not a place where there are spiritual supermen and superwomen it's a place where people gather with with clay feet who have stumbled along the way who've made some bad choices along the way and Solomon prays oh God when they come to this house may they step into an atmosphere where it's safe to confess and receive forgiveness there's there's an unusual anointing on this house a unique anointing that God has released in this house that makes it safe to confess my flaws that makes it safe to wrestle with choices that i've made so that the goal of this house is not just to see folk saved and yet that's a part of it but to see them heal and set forth and delivered and set free because it is a place where God draws men and women who are in need of forgiveness and yet who are handled spiritually who are handled in a certain way because they enter into an anointed atmosphere so you remember the story uh when when when this group of guys uh the bible says they caught this woman in the very act of adultery in the bible says and and the bible says and they drug her in the dust and threw her at the feet of Jesus now the bible says that they caught her in the very act i thought about that what must they have been doing to catch this sister in the very act i mean i i know the text doesn't say it and and i don't have time for that in this message but it is a good question i mean what kind of warrior ministry were they had going on that i mean how how do you how did how did they catch this sister in the very act you know what i'm saying and so the bible says they caught this woman and they threw her in the dust at the feet of Jesus now it really was a setup because they wanted to see how he would handle her see the trick was this if he said stone her and condemn her they would say yeah yeah but what about all this love you've been preaching about and yet if he condemned her and and and and he or other if if he forgave her let her go he would then be breaking the law of the land it says she ought to be stoned it was kind of a catch 22 and and so they they thought they thought they had him but but look at the genius of Jesus bible says he he kneeled down and started writing start writing in in in in the dust you know doctoral theses and and uh masters theses have been written on what he wrote you know all kinds of uh academic and intellectual and exegetical speculation about what he wrote i'm gonna tell you what he wrote in a minute and so he was writing he was writing and and and he was writing and people saw walking i'll tell you what he wrote i'll tell you in a minute and he was writing and writing kept on writing kept writing and went and and i'm gonna tell you what he was writing and he was writing and writing and writing and writing and and and and uh we'll see what he wrote was i don't know what he wrote i don't i don't bible never says what he wrote praise the lord because some of my stuff was probably in there too you know what i'm saying but we do know that when he finished writing the accusers had left and jesus said to that woman where are your accusers and she cowered and looked up to him and said they're gone and jesus said neither do i condemn you and then he looked her straight in the face and he said and don't you ever do that again watch this watch this watch this watch how jesus handled her she found forgiveness but she found compassion it was not just that he forgave her it was about how he handled her when when you come to a place like this there is there is such an anointing of compassion that flows in the very atmosphere of this house that it's a safe place to confess i blew it i messed up i've sinned i made some bad choices and yet they handled you in such a way that you recognize that they speak truth but they speak love and though they do not condemn you they they speak to you and they handled you with compassion because when it's a house of god it's a place where you can come and it's safe to declare i've blown it i've messed up but can i fight favor can i find forgiveness can i find the mercy of god and god says in this house it is a house of forgiveness come here come here back to the text back back back back back next verse watch this verse 22 if anyone sends against his neighbor and is forced to take an oath and comes and takes an oath before you your altar at this temple watch this then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants listen very carefully bringing retribution on the wicked by bringing his way unto his own head and justifying the righteous by giving them according to his righteousness look at me he says this and yet lord when some of us come in need of forgiveness let not that need of forgiveness and how we handle them be like leaven let it not bleed over and affect and impact the innocent in other words lord as you are dealing with those who are struggling with bad choices and sin and struggling with the challenges of our lives oh god don't let our lives the lives of the innocent be negatively impacted by the reality of bad choices in the lives of others let me say that another way oh lord as you deal with those of us who are need of forgiveness protect the rest of us that we don't likewise have to live under the burden and weight and consequences of sin in someone else's life god brought someone here today and you're struggling with the load and the weight of the choices that someone else has made Solomon says I pray lord that you would protect the innocent I pray that it might never be seen by any as a license to sin I pray that it might never be a place that's soft on sin but rather a place where holiness is a value and righteousness covers the people of god I pray oh god that as you deal with those of us who are struggling that you protect those of us who are trying to walk right god brought someone here today it's and maybe in your family someone is struggling to get their lives back and yet the whole family is being impacted by this I don't know what I'm talking to but god says there's a release of the presence of god in this house and in your life that covers and protects the innocent I see someone and there's been a bad choice and you you're concerned about siblings something about siblings that the other sons and daughters the other brothers and sisters do not see the negative example of one as a license to turn themselves may it be a place where holiness oh god and righteousness are the values and that even as we struggle with the choices and the decisions and yet even the sins of others that you might protect our minds and our spirits that we might continue to walk in righteousness it's a spirit of mercy oh god have mercy on us that we might live and strive under the canopy covering of your mercy in spite of the temptation and the struggles that we might face may you cover those who walk in righteousness if it's god's house it's a place of forgiveness it's a place of mercy go back to the next verse watch this or he says if your people are defeated before the enemy because they've sinned against you watch this one now and they return and confess your name and pray and make supplication before you in this temple then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people and listen and bring them back to the land which you gave them and to their fathers i love this Solomon says oh god because of the attack of the enemy some of us have lost ground some of us have had setbacks some of us have missed and what and fallen short of the blessings that you've released and given to us and so he says father when we repent and we turn and we confess beyond healing beyond deliverance beyond salvation he says restore the land that you gave them in the first place ah is god's house it's a house of restoration it's a house that recognizes that when the enemy comes upon us we lose ground there are setbacks in our lives and yet when god cleanses us and forgives us and makes us righteous would god cleanses us except into our life the prayer is that god would take you right back and the stuff that the enemy has tried to take away the stuff that the kenka worm has destroyed the things in your life that the enemy has taken by the power of god when he has cleansed you when he has forgiven you when he has washed you that he takes you back and gives you everything that the enemy tried to take from you he restores unto you the joy of your salvation and the things that he has decreed you shall see them come the past it's a place of restoration ah someone's here today and you you've had setbacks because of bad choices god says there's a release in this house Job says sometimes I feel like the lord has forgotten my address Job said I looked around and I couldn't find him left right forward back I could not find him but Job learned an interesting lesson Job said he knows the way that I tried here's what Job's lesson is sometimes there's better than you being able to see god and when you can't see god the thing is better than seeing god is remembering that when you cannot see him he can always see you and god has made a commitment and so Job says when he has tried me I shall come forth as true true gold I will in all the days of my appointed time I will continue to trust in god god says to somebody today it looks like you've had a setback it looks like the enemy has come in it looks like you've lost some ground but god says to you by the power of the living god he speaks restoration in your life and everything that the enemy is taken from you god shall restore it god shall remove it god shall bring it back god shall restore you and everything that the enemy came and took away from you god says it shall be restored the land that he promised you shall be given unto you what god said he would do you heard him right he's still going to do it the devil at best can delay it but he cannot deny it because when god says it's time for your restoration when god says it's time for you to step forth the devil in hell cannot stop you god releases in this place a spirit of restoration now watch this now watch this watch this that that's a song the song now we've seen it sometimes in african-american tradition that says i'm going you may speak and may sing it in the vanilla tradition too but but uh we in the in this the song says something like i'm going into the enemy's camp and i'm going to take back everything the devil stole from me you ever heard that song i'm going into the enemy's camp and i'm going to take back everything the devil stole from me well when you're going don't move too fast because some of the stuff that the devil took from you god never gave you in the first place god gives you wisdom to recognize that sometimes what the devil took from you you can let the devil have it because what god has for you is exceeding abundantly above anything you can ask or think and what is coming is better than what has been you didn't get that i said it too fast i said what is coming is better than what has been you still didn't get it tell your neighbor what's coming is better than what has been that's a good place for a shout right off down through there right right off in there right off down through that god says it shall be a house of restoration praise the name of the living god i'm going home on this one come on back to the text one more time last time watch what he says in verse 26 when the heavens thank you lord have been shut up and there is no rain everyone say rain because they sinned against you what's this when they pray toward this place thank you lord and confess your name and turn from their sins because you're afflicted then what's this now then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people and your people is real that you may teach them the good way in which they should walk here it is and sinned rain everyone say rain prophet says sinned rain on your land which you've given to your people as an inheritance look at me we're ready to go home Solomon says lord when the heavens have been shut up when you and i and the people of god go through seasons of drought when you sown seeds and you've trusted god and as pastor dave said you've been seeking and asking and knocking and it has not happened the word of the lord says to you it's too soon to quit don't stop seeking don't stop asking don't stop knocking though it appears that the heavens have been shut up and there is no rain i declare unto you i have the weather report it's gonna rain children i came by to tell somebody today it does not matter how long it may appear that the heavens have been shut up i've got the weather report and the weather report is rain is on the way it's gonna rain in this house rain symbolizes an unusual outpouring of the presence and power of god rain symbolizes that which god gives to bring forth harvest harvest assumes that seeds have been planted i came to tell somebody today you've planted seeds and you've watered seeds and you've waited and you've trusted and you've watered and you've waited and you've watered and you've waited and you've trusted and it seems as though the heavens have been shut up while i came to tell you your waiting days are coming to an end it's going to rain a harvest of souls the likes of which you've not seen a harvest of deliverance the likes of which you've not seen as you have sewn and struggled and waited and trusted in spite of your discouragement it's part of looking for rain and there has been none Solomon prays what i pray for you oh lord send the rain it's gonna rain in gateway it's gonna rain and in our age it's gonna rain in frisco i came to declare unto you god shall send the outpouring of his spirit and his presence and his power in such an unusual way it's going to be a gully washer my word to you gateway get ready for rain uh you're not ready for it it's gonna rain children my daddy would sometimes send on the back porch of our little house in east st louis look up and nothing but blue sry and daddy would say son it's going to rain i said daddy but the weatherman said it's nothing but blue sky daddy said son i'm not talking about the weather man i'm talking about the man who makes the weather i'm telling you it's going to rain i said daddy how can it rain when there's not a cloud in the sky that it would say son it's going to rain daddy how do you know it's going to rain daddy would say son i can feel it in my knees god says if my people who are called by them my name will humble themselves and pray if i can find somebody who will go down on their knees and feel it in your knees that god is about to do something it's going to rain up in here oh god send the rain tell your neighbor get ready for rain it's going to rain in this house it had not rain for many years in a little country town and the old preacher stood on a Sunday morning and said saints of god tomorrow night we're going to gather in the house of god every knee is bowed everybody bit and we're going to trust god we're going to pray for rain tomorrow night we're going to gather in the house and everybody's going about to god and we're going to pray for rain sure enough that next night that monday night all the saints gathered in this little country church they came from here and there in this down this little dusty road on leading to this little country church because the preacher said we're going to pray for rain had not rained in years props were failing farms were failing and yet the preacher said we're going to pray for rain sure enough the little kids who were gathering early look down the road and they saw a strange sight coming because the preacher said we're going to pray for rain they look down the road and they saw dust being kicked up at every step that this person was taking one of the little kids realized this was old mother jones one of the old prayer warriors in the church because the preacher said we're going to gather and pray for rain they looked at mother jones and she was dressed in a strange outfit mother jones dressed up in a strange get up they looked up and she had a strange rubber hat on her head mother jones had an old yellow rubber coat around her back mother jones had a parasol that's nothing for you young folk that's a oil umbrella anyway uh had a umbrella in her hand mother jones had old rubber boots they called them goloshes y'all don't call them down here and that dollar's no more like that they had she had on a rubber hat and an old rubber rain coat and she had an umbrella in her hand and goloshes on her feet the kids we can no wonder what's wrong with all mother jones they ran that tells the preacher preacher preacher something's wrong with all mother jones she's dressed up in a strange outfit sure enough the preacher came and looked down the road and here comes old mother jones she's got a rubber hat on her head she's got an old umbrella yellow rubber coat on her back she's got an umbrella in her hands and she's got goloshes on her feet and the preacher said mother jones mother jones why are you dressed in such a strange way mother jones had lost all her teeth and she said passed up i thought you said we was coming out here to pray for rain and it seems to me if we come in to pray for rain somebody ought to be dressed for rain so i got on my rain hat and i got my umbrella and i got my goloshes and i got my rain coat because i came to pray for rain is there anybody in gateway who's ready for rain uh you've got to learn how to praise god in the rain you've got to learn how to give god a wave offering in the rain you've got to learn how to give god glory in the rain and when you've got enough faith that the rain is coming you don't wait until it starts raining to start praising you can praise god now because the rain is on the way is there a praiseer in this house is there a worshipper in this house lift up your heads o_e_ gates shout on to the lord with the shout of triumph clap your hand o_e_ people rain lord rain and gateway rain on our families rain on our marriages rain on our children rain on our finances rain in our spirits somebody give god praise in this house let it rain god praise him in the rain you've got to learn how to dance in the rain you've got to learn how to shout in the rain somebody give god glory in this house lord rain down your power rain down your spirit rain down your anointing somebody give god praise bless the name of the living god rain god everyone's standing everyone's standing everyone's standing he rains down mercy lavishly abundantly he rains down forgiveness he rains down cleansing he rains down strength he rains down encouragement he's such an omnipresent god that he rains in nrh and frisco and in this center at the same time rain lord open up the windows of heaven pour out blessings that we don't even have room to receive lord it appears as though the heavens have been shut up in our homes in our marriages in our finances in our businesses it seemed as though that's been a drought but we've come into this house and we declare god is in this house a house of forgiveness a house of mercy a house of restoration a house of rain god brought someone here today today here at this worship center god brought someone to nrh he navigated the circumstances of your life you almost didn't come this morning you faced some obstacles and you almost did not come you almost didn't come and god knew when adam and eve were walking around in the garden looking for a leaf to hide under god or dang that you'd be here today god brought someone to frisco today by his sovereign hand he brought someone needing forgiveness he brought someone needing salvation he brought someone needing mercy he brought someone needing restoration in a moment the pastors are going to come the ministry workers are going to come and stand with you and agree with you and pray with you as you come knowing you're in a safe place safe enough to confess safe enough to be healed safe enough to be made whole hey lady hey mister is this god's house i believe it is amen the main standing never head about and have our clothes let me just talk to us real quick all right and this is we're not dismissing it if you need ministry today for any of those areas we want to pray for you i believe there's power in prayer and i believe there's real power when two or more gather together and agree together and that's what we do during the ministry time so i want to invite you all over the house whether in the balcony all the way in the back it doesn't matter and please don't leave during this time this could be the most critical time for some people's lives if you need ministry here in a second i'm going to pray and as soon as i say amen we're going to just receive that ministry i'm asking my ministry leaders to come forward and let god minister to you all right you don't have to be a member here you don't have to be embarrassed by it i mean this is something we do so take advantage of that all right let god minister to your life heavenly father i pray you'll bring everyone forward that needs prayer father in any of those areas in jesus name amen amen