Freedom in Prayer | Prayer of Jabez Experience with Priscilla Shirer & Jonathan Evans

Our final point of prayer in this prayer of Jbaz is something that we all need. He says, "Keep me from harm that it may not pain me." Everybody in here needs to pray this part of the prayer if you haven't prayed a part yet because I can't tell you what's going to happen or what's going to come in 2026.

I can't tell you what's in front of us. What's in front of us as a church? what's in front of you as your family, what's in front of you in your single life, your married life, or your ((music playing)) children. We don't know. All we know is that in this world there are harms, there are things, there are there's suffering and troubles.

But Jaz says, even though my name is pain, keep me from the harm that'll have me experiencing my name. In other words, he had a critical circumstance in his past and he didn't want to continue to be pained by it. Some of us have a critical circumstance in our past.

You have emotional abuse. You have sexual abuse. You have physical abuse. You have mental abuse. You have addiction. You have abandonment. ((music playing)) You have failure. You have a critical memory in your past that has been paining you and bringing harm to you. And he's saying, "No longer allow me to experience my history when I've been called to move forward with an eternal view.

Lord, we fix our eyes on you because there is literally no other hope we know. We trust you and we look to the hills from WHICH COMETH OUR HELP. OUR HELP COMES from the Lord who made heaven and earth. Father, we humble ourselves before you today expecting that because you are good and because you are kind and because ((music playing)) you are faithful, even when we are faithless, you will not only hear us but you will answer in Jesus name.

Everybody agreed and said amen. >> Amen. >> 1994 that is when the Lion King came out. The first Lion King. The Lion King that we all went to go see. we took our kids to go see when they were in the season of life where they could see it.

And my favorite scene in The Lion King is when Simba is feeling himself. He's little, small, and the hyenas come for him. And he thinks he's got it. They're in his face, and he decides to defend himself, and he lets out the most sad, raggedy roar, but he's given it THE BEST HE CAN.

The hyenas stop in their tracks and then commence to die laughing. They roll over on their sides. They're falling on the ground. They can't believe that this is all this little guy has and that he thinks that it can really defend him against them. He tries again. Wow.

HE'S GIVEN IT HIS BEST, ALL THAT HE'S GOT. AND the hyenas laugh cuz they know they've got him. Simba decides to give it one more try. and he lets out the best roar that he can muster. But this time it seems to reverberate off the mountain sides. Everything seems to shake.

It's got a WEIGHTINESS TO IT. IT'S GOT some strength to it HE DIDN'T HAVE BEFORE. AND THAT'S because he didn't know that his daddy had walked up behind him. THAT IT WASN'T JUST HIS ROAR. NOW IT CARRIED THE WEIGHT OF HIS FATHER WITH IT. And that roar shut the enemy down.

I don't know why we think like Simba that we got it. >> I don't know why WE TEND TO AS HUMAN BEINGS JUST TRY TO GIVE IT OUR BEST EFFORT IN LIFE TO STAND AGAINST THE ENEMY AND ALL his schemes AND DEVICES AGAINST US, WE THINK WE REALLY GOT IT AND WE GIVE IT THE BEST WE'VE GOT.

BUT UNLESS WE HAVE THE WEIGHT OF THE FATHER'S PRESENCE BEHIND US, >> GUARDING US UP, Y'ALL, SUPPORTING US, SUSTAINING US, KEEPING US, stabilizing us emotionally, mentally, FINANCIALLY IN OUR FAMILY, UNLESS THE HOUND OF HEAVEN GOES TO GET OUR SONS AND OUR DAUGHTERS and our GRANDSONS AND OUR GRANDDAUGHTERS.

UNLESS HE SHAKES THEM AWAKE OUT OF OUR THEIR SPIRITUAL SLUMBER SO THAT THEY WILL COME TO KNOW HIM AS SAVIOR. UNLESS THE ROAR OF HEAVEN IS BEHIND US, OUR BEST EFFORTS WILL HAVE BEEN in vain. UNLESS THE LORD BUILDS THE HOUSE, >> THEY WHO LABOR TO BUILD IT BUILD IT IN VAIN.

THE BEST WE'VE GOT is not good enough. >> That's why we pray. >> We pray because the kingdom of darkness don't respond to us, but it does respond to him. We pray because WE NEED THE STRENGTH OF HEAVEN BEHIND US TO sustain us in this life that we are living.

And so we call out to God because what a PRIVILEGE THAT THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE, THE ONE WHO MADE heaven and earth, the one WHO RIGHT NOW IS SUSTAINING THE THROWS OF THE UNIVERSE IN HIS RIGHT HAND. The one who is MAKING SURE THAT THE EARTH CONTINUES TO SPIN ON ITS AXIS AT JUST THE RIGHT SPEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN SUSTAIN LIFE ON THIS PLANET.

THAT THAT GREAT, LOVING, ALMIGHTY, POWERFUL, SOVEREIGN, HOLY GOD CARES TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH US. He gave us this key to unlock the resources of heaven and have them unleashed onto the landscape of earth. Why don't we use the key? Why are we out in these streets doing everything except the one thing that actually pushes back the kingdom of darkness?

So, we start prioritizing everything except prayer. The enemy hopes we will be lazy Christians who will show up just for church on Sunday but will not even think to talk to God on Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday or Friday. He hopes that we will forget that the key to accessing the power of heaven is in our hands at our disposal, but we've got to use it.

So we pray. We pray because we can't have victory without it. And there's one place in scripture where prayer crops up as a priority. And it's a place in scripture that if we're not careful to look into the text, we'll miss it because it's sitting right in the middle of a genealogy.

A part of scripture where honestly you want to bypass it because it's just one name after the next name after the next name. They're unfamiliar names and most of them we can't even pronounce. In 1 Chronicles, the first nine chapter chronicle uh the Hebrew [snorts] legacy and lineage starting with Adam all the way until the Hebrews are uh back return from captivity in Babylon.

This is over thousands OF YEARS OVER FOUR 500 names back to back one after the other. This is the part of scripture you might just skip on to get to the good part. But if you do, you'll miss 1 Chronicles chapter 4. Because in that portion of scripture, there is one name out of the list that the historian gives more real estate in the text than he does to any other person.

And it's because this guy prayed. 1 Chronicles chapter 4:9 says, "Jabz, HE WAS MORE HONORABLE THAN HIS BROTHERS. His mother named him Jabz, SAYING, "BECAUSE I BORE him in pain." Verse 10, JABZ CALLED ON THE GOD OF ISRAEL. HE SAID, "OH, THAT YOU WOULD BLESS ME." He said, "WOULD YOU PLEASE ENLARGE MY BORDERS AND ENLARGE MY TERRITORY?

WOULD YOU KEEP YOUR HAND ON ME AND KEEP ME FROM HARM SO THAT IT MAY NOT PAIN ME? And listen to this. God granted this brother's request. Jabz is highlighted, spotlighted out of the names of all of these people one after the other. And the writer takes more time to spotlight him and to underscore him because he prayed.

And he SAID HE WAS MORE honorable than his brother BECAUSE HE WAS A man of prayer. Remember the entire genealogy is made up of people within the nation of Israel. These are the people of God. The people that are in the house of God, that are marked by the presence of God, that live underneath the promises OF GOD.

BUT HE IS CONSIDERED more honorable not because of what he produced, not because of how powerful he seemed to be in battle or in war, not because what he had accumulated. It is because he prayed. And I fear that in the church sometimes we have highlighted people who seem to be in front RATHER THAN REALIZING THERE ARE PEOPLE BEHIND THE scenes who are interceding on OUR BEHALF.

THEY'RE THE ONES WHO WAKE UP AT 4:00 IN THE MORNING AND WHO ARE FOUND IN THE HOUSE OF GOD LATE AT NIGHT OR WHO ARE STANDING IN THE DOORWAY OF OAKLIFF BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH FOR 50 YEARS SAYING, "NOT TODAY, ENEMY. NOT ON OUR WATCH." AND WE CELEBRATE THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THIS GIFT of prayer.

But it's not just for some folk. There are not some people who have a special hotline connection with God that we don't all have access to. WE ALL ARE SUPPOSED TO REMEMBER EPHESIANS chapter 6 that we are not wrestling against flesh and blood, BUT AGAINST THE PRINCIPALITIES, AGAINST THE POWERS, AGAINST THE WORLD FORCES OF THIS DARKNESS, AGAINST SPIRITUAL FORCES OF WICKEDNESS THAT ARE IN HEAVENLY PLACES.

THEREFORE, WE HAVE TO LAY DOWN, Y'ALL, ALL THE WEAPONS OF THIS WORLD THAT DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE POWER AND TAKE UP SOME WEAPONS THAT ACTUALLY WORK. We got to pray. JZ is not just more honorable because he prayed. He's more honorable because his name was pain. His mother named him JZ, which means pain, grief, devastation, heartbreak.

Biblical names were not just pointing to someone's history. They were also prophetically speaking into somebody's future. It was understood by everybody around JZ JZ that not only had he caused pain, but his legacy would be marked by grief and hurt and devastation. How would it have felt every time he entered a room to heard that identity spoken over him?

How would it have felt when he left a room to hear the whispers behind him about what people's expectation was of him? The reality is though in a group this size we don't have to just think about a jbezz. Some of us can look in the mirror. Pain has marked our lives.

We've heard people have low expectations. Our mothers, our fathers, people who were supposed to affirm us and speak well over us. They did not. And so pain has come to mark us in our lifetime. Or maybe there are some friends that I have in this room, some people that I know that things have happened recently and pain has been the banner over this season of your life.

You can barely keep yourself upstraight because of what you've lost and the grief that you've had and the heartbreak that you've experienced in these last years. Would you remember Jabz WAS MORE HONORABLE NOT JUST BECAUSE HE PRAYED, BUT because he turned his pain into prayer? that he decided that the thing that kept him up at night, the thing that was most painful to him, the thing that broke his heart, the thing that CAUSED TEARS TO FALL DOWN FROM HIS EYES, he wasn't going to allow IT TO MAKE HIM SKEPTICAL AND HARDENED SO THAT HE didn't turn TO GOD.

INSTEAD, HE TURNED his pain into prayer. HE KNEW WHERE HIS HELP CAME FROM. SO HE CALLED OUT TO THE GOD OF Israel and he asked for four things. Over the next few minutes together, church, we going to ask for these four things. Because God answered his request, we expect God's going to answer ours, too.

Whatever thing most pains you, what that you wrote down on this card, you dropped off in those buckets or on this platform, or maybe you didn't write it down yet and you want to, please take time anytime over the next few minutes to do that if you'd like to.

Or maybe it's a request you just still have tucked in the recesses of your heart. Wherever the prayer request is, I'm saying call out to the God of Israel. Israel. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and them boys. The God who is the God of covenant. That's what that means.

Jabz is reaching all the way back to Genesis chapter 22 when Yahweh had said to his forefather Abraham, "I got you. I don't just have you now, Abraham, but to a thousand generations, my promises will hang like a banner over you because you are my people." We sit grafted in underneath the covenant.

So, for the next few minutes, we're going to call out to the God of Abra, the God of Abraham. We're going to ask our leaders to come forward. I think some are going to be up there, some are going to be down here. And for the next few minutes, y'all, what we are doing, as Pastor John mentioned, is that we are praying as the sermon today.

We're doing what our great-grandmothers and them used to do when there were wooden pews in the sanctuary and they used to just terry in the presence of God. Anybody know what I'm talking about? where they used to call out to God with a VOICE OF TRIUMPH AND THEY JUST USED to wait on his presence.

And maybe you don't know what to do in these minutes. You're not quite sure what to pray. Or maybe you're so discouraged and spiritually fatigued right now, you actually can't pray. I want to tell you that just sitting in his presence is enough. Just sit here. Just be in his pray.

Just let the Holy Spirit do what the Holy Spirit's going to do. We're going to pray together. And in these moments, you can feel free to come forward if you'd like somebody to pray with you. Maybe if your heart is particularly broken or you can't find the words to pray, that's what you'd like to do.

You can stand with your hands outstretched. You can lay prostrate on the floor. You can get down on your knees. You can walk around if you need to. Whatever you need to do in these moments, that's why we're here to call out to God in the beginning of 2026.

((music playing)) The first thing JZ prayed for, he said, "Bless me." SOUNDS LIKE A SELFISH WAY TO BEGIN A PRAYER. Except when you realize that back in biblical times to be asked to be blessed had NOTHING TO DO WITH OUR modern westernized view of blessing. There was nothing superficial about asking for a blessing.

Nothing material, nothing that was temporary, nothing that might be flashy and impressive to other people. He wasn't interested in that. Back in the day, when you ask for blessing, you were asking for the roar of the father to BE BEHIND YOU. YOU WERE ASKING for supernatural investment. You were asking for something weighty and sacred ((music playing)) and holy that only God could provide.

Nothing that could come from your own resources or industry or endeavor, the own work of YOUR HANDS. NO, JZ WAS SAYING, GOD, GIVE ME WHAT ONLY YOU CAN. I need your presence. I need your power. I need you to be with me in order for my life to work.

FATHER, WOULD YOU BLESS ME? AND DON'T JUST BLESS me in a regular way. Bless me indeed. Show enough like for real for real. Pour out your blessing on my life. IN THESE NEXT FEW MOMENTS, HOWEVER YOU WANT TO DO IT, WHETHER PRAYING with one another, praying individually, or praying down front, WOULD YOU CALL OUT TO GOD FOR A FEW MINUTES AND ASK HIM TO bless you indeed?

Let's pray together. Lord, ((music playing)) hear our hear our prayers. Let there be a symphony of prayer ringing out in the room. Father, we ask you for your blessing. Pour out your blessing upon us in the name of Jesus. Come near, Father. Your Holy Spirit rest on us. Bless the Lord. >> ((music playing)) >> Oh my soul and ((music playing)) all that is within me.

Bless his home. Holy name, bless the Lord. Oh my soul and all that is within me. Bless his holy name. He has done great things. He has done great things. He ((music playing)) has done great things. Bless his ((music playing)) bless his holy name. He has done great things. Oh, he has done great things.

((music playing)) He ((music playing)) has done great things. He has done great ((music playing)) things. So we will bless his heart. ((music playing)) Bless. ((music playing)) Oh my soul and all that is ((music playing)) within me. Bless his ((music playing)) home. His holy name I will bless the Lord. Oh my soul and all that is within me. Bless his ((music playing)) ((music playing)) holy name.

Heavenly Father, Lord, we pray that you bless us indeed. We want the roar of the Father behind us. We want you to take us through and we're praying that you would take us through 2026 on eagle's wings. Not by our strength. We are weak, but by your strength, Lord.

So we pray, Lord, for each individual, each man, woman, and child that you would bless this church indeed that you would bless them in the city and bless ((music playing)) them in the field. Bless us when we come and bless us when we go. May you give us the blessing of Abraham.

That you would give us a heritage that's meaningful. That you would make our name great only to the degree that we're making your name great. Yes. And that through us a lot of people will run into Jesus. ((music playing)) We pray for your blessing because we know that your blessing there is no sorrow in it.

So we pray for that blessing Lord and we pray for it indeed in Jesus name. The body of Christ said, "Amen." As we continue in prayer, Jabaz had a second part to his prayer. And that second part wasn't just that he would be blessed indeed, but he said, "Enlarge my territory." >> He said, "Expand my borders."

Now you have to understand that Jaz because his name meant pain for him to pray this prayer for an expansion. He had to believe that where he was would not determine where he will be. >> He had to believe more in God's plan than he did the experience of his pain.

He had to believe that his limitations would not have the final say over his legacy. It is true for me and many of us when we pray that our trauma has turned us into skeptics. That when we go to the throne of grace, we are skeptical about what God can do because of what we have gone through.

But we got to understand that God can do watch exceedingly abundantly beyond all that you can even ask or even imagine. So our prayer needs to remove the doubt and unbelief. >> Matthew 21:22 tells us to pray in such a way that you are believing and having full faith because if you believe you will receive.

Notice that he doesn't say to expand my territory to a certain point that he defined because a lot of us pray prayers that have boundaries on them unknowingly and then we wonder why the answers to our prayers have boundaries on them is because they came in the boundaries that we prayed them in.

We cannot put our limitations on God but expect that he can actually blow our minds. We need to pray faithful prayers that God will surprise us beyond our ability to even conceptualize what he can do. I believe for our church in 2026 that God is going to surprise us.

That God is going to expand our territory. That God is going to take us to places that we can't even see or conceptualize. But we have to remove the doubt. We have to remove the disbelief and not allow the trauma to be the thing that gears us up or takes us away from the triumph that God wants to give to us.

And so he says, "Bless me indeed." Watch. Enlarge my territory. Don't let me pray prayers that are limited because I'm limited. Take me beyond. This was not a prayer like Priscilla said. Enlarge my territory for more things and more stuff. This is the book of Chronicles, the Davidic line.

This is the line of Judah. This is all about Jesus Christ. So Lord, expand my territory to be a witness. Expand my territory to have the capacity to forgive. Expand my capacity for love, mercy, and grace. Expand my ability on my job to see where you're taking me and to go where you're calling me.

And so right now, we're going to go into a time of prayer. And if you have had trauma in your life, we want to pray for a release. If you have had things that have happened to you that have produced doubt and your faith with God, we want to pray for total freedom because it is for freedom that you have been set free.

If you're living with unforgiveness and that's hindering your prayer life, we need to pray that you are set free from ((music playing)) that unforgiveness. If you have addiction and you have different things in your life that are holding you down, this time is a prayer for freedom. So that when we go before the Lord, we are set free from the limitations that make us pray limited prayers to a limitless God.

So right now in any way that God is calling you, we pray Lord that you call on. We pray that ((music playing)) Lord will set you free and that you can go to the Lord right now for freedom indeed so that we can experience the beyond. Our leaders are here.

The altar is open. Let's go to our second part of prayer. And you can pray with your family members as well ((music playing)) as you sit in your row. Pray for freedom so that we can experience all that God wants to do. Let's pray together. Break every chain. Break every chain.

Break every chain. There is power in the [singing] name of Jesus. >> There is power in [singing] the name of Jesus. ((music playing)) >> Every chain. Break every ((music playing)) chain. Break every chain. There's an army rising. There's an army ((music playing)) rising. Break every chain. Break every chain. Break every chain. ((music playing)) To break every chain.

Break every chain. Break every chain. I hear the chains falling. ((music playing)) I hear the chains falling. I feel Thank you, Father, that you are loosening shackles. Thank you that you are demolishing strongholds. Thank you that you're taking the limits off. Thank you, Father, that our faith is being ((music playing)) increased in the name of Jesus.

Thank you, Lord, that right now trajectories are being shifted even as we pray that you will ((music playing)) increase our territory in Jesus' name. Everybody agreed and said, "Amen." And then Jabz prays, "Lord, WOULD YOU PLEASE LET YOUR HAND be upon me?" In the Old Testament, THE HAND OF GOD WAS SYMBOLIC OF his favor, of his presence, of his supernatural empowerment.

This is basically US PRAYING, "LORD, POUR OUT YOUR SPIRIT ON US. POUR OUT YOUR HOLY SPIRIT. FILL US WITH YOUR PRESENCE SO THAT WE ARE EMPOWERED TO BE WHAT WE CAN'T BE IN our own strength. So that what WE DO, YOU WILL ESCALATE OUR EFFORTS, FATHER, SO THAT THEY DO MUCH MORE.

THEY BEAR MUCH MORE FRUIT THAN anything we could ever manufacture or manipulate OR TRY TO CREATE in our own power. Second Corinthians chapter 11 verse14 SAYS THE ENEMY BLINDS THE EYES OF THE UNBELIEVING SO THAT THEY CANNOT SEE. This is why we need God's hand on us because there are some of our family members y'all.

It don't matter what we say. Unless God lifts the veil from their eyes, they will not see and their heart will not be sensitized. So we ask God, let your hand be on me. Father, give me favor and guidance and governance and protection and empowerment so that I carry THE WEIGHT OF YOUR spirit into my family, into my relationships, into my workplace, into my ministry.

GOD, I WANT YOUR PRESENCE ON ME. Moses said in Exodus 33 as the people WERE HEADED INTO THE PROMISED LAND, "IF YOUR PRESENCE ISN'T GOING WITH US, THEN WE DON'T want to go." Because what will mark us? WHAT'S GOING TO make us different? If your presence isn't with us, we don't want the promised land WITHOUT THE PROMISED GIVER.

GIVER, WE WON'T BE DIFFERENT THAN ANYBODY ELSE. We need his hand. We need his presence. That's what marks us. Not just Christians in name only. Not just folks who read a verse a day to keep the devil away. No, we need God's hand on our lives so that everywhere we go and in every interaction we have and in any com every conversation WE ENGAGE IN, THERE'S SOMETHING MARKING it that carries supernatural weightiness to it.

So, we're going to ask for God's hand, his hand in our lives, in every area so that his power goes with us. ((music playing)) The altar is open. This is a sanctuary of prayer. Ask God to let his hand ((music playing)) be upon you in Jesus name. Lord, we pray for favor.

We pray for an outpouring of your spirit. Pour out your spirit, Father. Fill us up to overflowing in the name of Jesus. Fill us up, Father. Pour out your spirit on us, Father. Keep ((music playing)) your hand upon me that no evil can not harm me. Sunshine ((music playing)) and rain, sickness and pain.

God, I come to you. Enlarge my tertory. Enlarge my territory. Enlarge my tertory. Enlarge my tertory. Oh Lord. Oh Lord. Bless me indeed. I pray for ((music playing)) increase. Bless. Bless me. Bless me. Oh Lord, bless me indeed. Enlarge my territory. Oh Lord, bless me ((music playing)) indeed. I pray for increase.

I pray for ((music playing)) increase in increase in increase. Oh Lord bless me indeed ((music playing)) in large my territory. Oh Lord, bless me in your gift. I pray for I pray for you. Heavenly Father, Lord, we pray for your presence in this house. May the spirit of God fill each person.

We pray Lord that your spirit would lead us and guide us in truth. We pray Lord that your spirit would comfort us. We pray Lord that the spirit of God will tell us what to say. ((music playing)) We pray Lord that the spirit of God will touch us so we know how to walk and where to go.

We pray Lord that this year in 2026 we would be led by the spirit of God. That it would be obvious and evident that God's hand is upon his people. What can we do without your presence? Lord, send us and we will go. But we don't want to go anywhere where you are not.

((music playing)) We pray Lord that you will walk with your people. That you will talk to your people. That you will be with your people. Lord, we need and request and ask for your presence, in our lives, in every area, in our marriages, in our children, in our businesses, Lord, in how we think.

We pray, Lord, for the hand of God, for the scriptures to be resident on the inside and for the Holy Spirit to illuminate those scriptures in every nuance and circumstance in our life. We give you the glory Lord for your hand and the spirit of God that guides us in Jesus' name.

Amen. Our final point of prayer in this prayer of Jbaz is something that we all need. He says, "Keep me from harm that it may not pain me." Everybody in here needs to pray this part of the prayer. If you haven't prayed apart yet, because I can't tell you what's going to happen or what's going to come in 2026, I can't tell you what's in front of us.

What's in front of us as a church, what's in front of you as your family, what's in front of you in your single life, your married life, or your children. We don't know. All we know is that in this world there are harms, there are things, there are there's suffering and troubles.

But Jaz says, "Even though my name is pain, keep me from the harm that'll have me experiencing my name." In other words, he had a critical circumstance in his past and he didn't want to continue to be pained by it. Some of us have a critical circumstance in our past.

You have emotional abuse. You have sexual abuse. You have physical abuse. You have mental abuse. You have addiction. You have abandonment. You have failure. You have a critical memory in your past that has been paining you and bringing harm to you. And he's saying, "No longer allow me to experience my history when I've been called to move forward with an eternal view." >> And so many of us need to pray this prayer.

Notice he does not say keep harm from me. He says keep me from harm. >> That is a different structure. That means even if harm comes, that doesn't mean I have to experience pain. Proverbs 18:10 says, "The name of the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous run into it and they are safe."

The reason why they're safe is because not because there's no harm, it's because the harm couldn't get through the strong tower. >> So Lord, we pray right now, Lord, that you would keep us from harm. that even if it comes that you would keep my mind stayed up on you.

That even if this is what they say that you will guard my heart in Christ Jesus. That you will help me to remember that I am a new creation so that I don't walk in my history and my past. Lord, I need you to keep me from harm like the three Hebrew boys.

They were in the fire, but they weren't scorched by the fire. Paul says it best, "I was hardpressed, but I was not crushed." He says, "I was persecuted, but I was not abandoned. I was ((music playing)) struck down, but I was not destroyed." Don't you know if God is holding you in his arms, harm can come and you not experience any pain.

You can walk with God on your side. And so this time I want us to pray either at the front or with one another that we will pray for a hedge of protection. That we will pray for a restraining order on the devil. That we will pray that the enemy will not be able to make its way in and that we will be kept safe in the fortifications of our God.

And so I want you to partner with your family or with someone next to you and I want you to pray protection over their life or you can come down if you need special prayer. Let's pray for each other as a kingdom community. ((music playing)) Let's pray right now that he would keep us from harm so that we won't experience pain in 2026.

Because the Lord [singing] is my ((music playing)) everything I need. [music and singing] And he leads me ((music playing)) quiet ((music playing)) and he [music and singing] That's why I'm ((music playing)) That's why I'm safe. >> [crying] >> in his own because the Lord is my sheer. I have everything I need. ((music playing)) He lets ((music playing)) me rest in the grass and heaves ((music playing)) me beside the quiet stream.

He restores my failing [singing and music] and he lets me do what I miss him the most. That's why I'm safe. That's why I'm safe. That's why ((music playing)) I'm safe. [crying] ((music playing)) [singing] So the storm of life is raing >> and the billow. [singing] It begins to roll. Don't say I I'm so glad Jesus has me.

Oh, say hi. ((music playing)) I'm so glad. Oh yeah. I'm so glad ((music playing)) Jesus he me ((music playing)) one more time say >> I'm so glad [singing] that Jesus has me. Yeah. ((music playing)) In his his arms I ((music playing)) say in his arms. Oh, ((music playing)) I'll stay [singing] in his arms. ((music playing)) Oh my ((music playing)) in his arms. [singing] ((music playing)) Oh, I'm safe.

[singing] in his last time. Heavenly Father, we pray Lord for the whole congregation in 2026 that you keep us from harm that it may not pain us. The it that may pain us is the harm that may come. But we pray Lord that you would keep us fortified from all the enemy's plans and all the enemy's schemes and all the enemy that try what he ever he tries to do against any man, woman or child.

We pray Lord all the way across the street for our youth and our children that you will protect them Lord that you will protect their minds and protect their spirits Lord and that they would choose Christ over culture. We pray that you would keep us, that you would guard us, that it may not pain us.

We give you the glory and we don't take it for granted. Send your angels concerning your people. We love you and we honor you today in Jesus name. All God's people said, give him a hand clap of praise. The leaders, if you're done praying, you can take your seats.