The True Secret of the Christian Life

Lord, Lord Jesus, my Lord, Lord, I love you. Lord, I adore you. My Lord and my God. Amen, Lord. Amen.

Now, I know some of you are hopped up on adrenals. (really fast) Good morning, Lord. I love you. I love you. I love you. Brother, steel your insides. Don’t do that, would you? Sisters, don’t do that. Alright, listen to the scripture. Turn to prayer.

Lord, you are my Shepherd; I will never want. Lord, I lay down in You. You are my rest. Lord Jesus, You are my water. I drink you as my water. Lord, you have restored my soul, and you are my righteousness, and I walk in you. You are my leadership, and you are my righteousness, and I am in you.

I do not fear death. I do not fear evil. For Lord, you are greater than death, and you’re greater than evil, and you are beside me and in me. You comfort me with your chastisement. You comfort me with your staff. You hold me within the fellowship of your flock by all means that you have.

Lord, you are a table, a feast, a drink, a banquet that I partake of in the presence of my enemy and yours. Praise the Lord. Your head has been anointed with oil, and my head has been anointed with the oil from your head, and my spirit overflows in you. Throughout all the days of my life, goodness and lovingkindness will follow me, and Lord Jesus, I mean to dwell in you, and I mean to dwell in your habitation, forever and forever. Amen.

Now, Sisters, something wonderful will happen tomorrow morning. The older of you is going to pray, and you’re just going to take this simple thing and pray it. But when you do, something in here may, may not, don’t worry about it, this is no time to worry, may bubble up, and you may think of something else. Or maybe it’s not a thought at all.

Now then, the sister who is sitting beside you has been listening and joining in with you, and she gets something out of what you said that’s not in her verse. Okay, you’re the other sister now. You take what you’ve got and turn it into prayer. Now, don’t know that long prayer, just a short statement. Then take what you’ve got, your verse, your verse 2, and you offer that and turn it to prayer.

Now, the first sister listening to the second sister may get something out of the verse that really strikes something. Turn it into a prayer, and then take verse 3 and turn it into a prayer. Then the other of you may get something from you and the verse, take that, turn it into prayer, and take the verse and turn it into prayer. Are you following? Brothers, are you following me? Did you get that? And when you have finished, in the spirit of something so much higher than most of our prayers are, just, if there’s any crumbs left over, just express them. Just express them. Let the Scripture, God breathed, breathe on your spirit, which is God breathed, and let the fellowship between you also spark that which the Lord may order, and turn it all into prayer, and when you have finished, if there are some crumbs left over, turn them into prayer.

That’s tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning. Now then, with your permission… We will get together on Tuesday morning for something. We’re going to press this so much further than that. We’re going to press. We’re going to press. And on Tuesday morning, I’m going to talk to you about how to meet on Sunday night. Okay? And then you’re going to come back. You can all come back and watch if you want to on Sunday night, but you can’t participate. You can only watch. Okay? You hear? Okay. Alright, don’t feel second-class, just feel left out.

Now, wasn’t that simple? This can revolutionize your prayer life if we never get any further than that. Okay. Yes, sir.  Okay. I’ll tell you what…Oh, boy. Oh, boy. How many of you cannot stay until seven? How many of you cannot stay till seven? Alright, we’re going to make it at 6 a.m., and I’ll try to get you out of here by then. I’m going to make this really simple. I need 4 people with large living rooms. All of you bring a notebook with you, and we’ll get into this really fast and get you out of there. Okay, 6 a.m., where are we going to meet? We’re going to meet. Where do you want to meet? Right here at 6 a.m. Don’t be late. And bring a notebook. And I want four people with big living rooms. How many of you have big living rooms, and your house is fairly easy to find? I got one. I’m not going to use your living room, preacher, pastor. Alright, you, one living room. You, another one. And you, another one. And I see some hands back there so eager. Both of you ladies, bring your living room. Okay.

Okay. Good enough. Is it a big living room? Yes, I pointed at you. I pointed at some brother back here. Okay, I want you to do this. I want you all to write down your address and phone number on 50 sheets, each of you, mimeograph it off or something. Alright, we’re halfway home. Now, hasn’t this been an unusual meeting? Yes, brother. How will this affect Thursday’s retreat? Thursday’s retreat. Your staff retreat. Oh, don’t worry about it. If you’re on the staff retreat, you can do this at the staff retreat. You should probably get with someone on the staff. Is that okay? Why don’t you, staffers, just hold off getting with someone if you can’t see someone here, and you all can pair up during your retreat? Okay.

May the Lord Jesus meet you tomorrow morning. Now then, you’re going to take one minute. I’m going to dismiss this meeting right now. We’ll have the announcements. We’re going to dismiss this meeting, and I am leaving it on your scout’s honor to get with someone in this group. If you don’t know the person, just grab them and say, Hey, you. You’ll be together all week. You’re going to meet tomorrow morning. We’re going to meet here on Tuesday morning. Then you are going to get together again on Thursday morning, and then on Sunday morning and Sunday night, you’re all going to come to a… I’ll tell you that.