Who Really Needs This [SURGE]
Senior Pastor Karl Miller, Jr.
Part of Prayer is my Superpower—Empower the believer with revelation concerning prayer and its power to impact life circumstances in order to stay constantly connected to God
October 16, 2019

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Empower the believer with revelation concerning prayer and its power to impact life circumstances in order to stay constantly connected to God
Prayer – The Supernatural activity of communing with God, whereby I share my intimate thoughts and feelings and God shares His intimate thoughts and feelings and gives instructions to me.

“This is God’s Message, the God who made earth, made it livable and lasting, known everywhere as God: ‘Call to me and I will answer you. I’ll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own.’ —Jeremiah 33:2-3 (MSG)

“Who Really Needs This [Gift]?”

It is our human nature to be hesitant with things that make us afraid or uncomfortable

  • Reveal Answer
    - unfamiliar, uncertainty, strange, “I don’t want to be one of those people”

  • Reveal Answer
    - misrepresented, improperly used, distorted impact, “I do not want to contribute to or participate in that”

      What values or principles have been abused, causing you to not want any part of it?

    Tongues has been misunderstood and feared because

  • We haven’t been properly taught
  • We have seen it distorted

      Now you do not want to participate in the gifting and this most power spiritual principle that God has given you.

    Am I Rejecting My Gift [of Tongues]

    Can’t I decline a gift?

  • I don’t feel obligated to accept every gift offered to me.

  • The truth is: I’m rejecting a gift God has prepared for me


  • It is necessary for my full empowerment

    After all the people had been baptized, Jesus also was baptized. While he was praying, heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit came down upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my own dear Son. I am pleased with you.” —Luke 3:21-22 (GNT)

    But, why this gift?

      When I pray in tongues, it’s an intimate worship time with me and God

    If you praise him in the private language of tongues, God understands you but no one else does, for you are sharing intimacies just between you and him. —1 Corinthians 14:2b (MSG)

      I have no choice but to focus on God in prayer when I can’t understand my own words

    Do I really need this gift?

      This is God’s prescribed method for me to develop a specific strength

    But you, dear friends, carefully build yourselves up in this most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit, staying right at the center of God’s love, keeping your arms open and outstretched, ready for the mercy of our Master, Jesus Christ. This is the unending life, the real life! —Jude 20-21 (MSG)

    Do I reeeally need this gift?

      I have been chosen to be the gift giver

    The one who prays using a private “prayer language” certainly gets a lot out of it, but proclaiming God’s truth to the church in its common language brings the whole church into growth and strength. I want all of you to develop intimacies with God in prayer, but please don’t stop with that. Go on and proclaim his clear truth to others. —1 Corinthians 14:4-5 (MSG)