Talk to God Hear Back and DO What He tells You If you are a Christian and you actually value a relationship with God, you should be talking to Him, you should be praying to God, but not only that you should be hearing back from Him. It’s pretty common for some Christians to pray, but it’s not common for them to hear back from God. And a lot of people who are in church think that only the pastor hears from God, but the truth is, every single one of God’s children, He loves and He wants a relationship with. That is why Jesus said that He will manifest to those that love Him, that means He will make Himself known to those that love Him. If 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 it says to pray continually. I used to wonder what that meant, because what my life as a Christian looked like in church was occasionally praying when I NEEDED God, but then when things were going well I would forget to pray for weeks and months. I would remember God, I would pray a little bit, and I’d go; “Oh, there you are God… Let’s start our relationship again…” And then I would just use God kind of as a genie, or as someone when I needed help, but as soon as things were going good for me again I would completely forget about Him. That is not praying continually. If we are praying continually that means every morning we are devoting our life to God, we are saying; “Lord, make me a vessel of honor for your purpose today that I may live fully for you.” You put on the full armor of God, the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, the sword of the Spirit, the belt of truth and the feet with those boots ready to bring the gospel of peace to anyone who will ask. Make sure that you are not only praying, but you are listening, hearing the Lord and obeying whatever your Master tells you to do. If Jesus truly is your master and if you truly love Him you WILL be hearing Him and you WILL OBEY HIM. The gift of the Holy Spirit is for YOU and for anyone who will believe the gospel and obey Jesus Christ. So, don’t believe that lie that you don’t really need to pray, that you won’t hear back from God, that you don’t need to obey Him. If you want a relationship with your creator it starts through prayer, through hearing Him and then obeying Him. When you pray, don’t listen with your physical ears, because the devil can speak in your physical ears. You need to listen for the Holy Spirit to speak to you in the bottom of your soul. The Holy Spirit bypasses our physical ears to speak to us in the bottom of our soul! Listen to your conscience. Do what you know is right from the bottom of your heart. Start obeying what you know is good, the things that come from the Spirit of God, and reject every single thing that you know is evil. If evil thoughts come your way rebuke them. We have the power to cast out demons in the name of Jesus. There is power in the name of JESUS. But we have to do what is RIGHT continually! Hold on to your faith, pray without ceasing and OBEY whatever Jesus Christ calls you to do. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ivAB6pRIg

A full video transcript, (copy and pastable) for this message can be found on my website www.warningthepeople.com you may also find a video transcript for this message in the community post section on my channel or on Facebook under my name Andrew Tiner. We all know that we get better at what we practice. But also, the things that you practice, you get more of a drive and more of a desire to want to do those things. For example, even if you are pretty in shape but you don't run, you have no desire to run. And maybe the last time you ran was when you were in junior high and in gym class, they made you run a mile and you hate it. Well, you won't enjoy running again until you make yourself get out and run. And the first time you get back to do it, you will probably hate it. But if you continue to practice it, your body will start to want that and then you'll enjoy running, and everything that we practice is like that when you're out of practice, it's something you're not good at it. So naturally you don't want to do it because you know you're bad at it and you're not in the condition to do it. That's why it's really important that we practice the things that we want to get good at and that we practice the things that are beneficial for ourselves, our own bodies and the Kingdom of God. A lot of people are so practiced in the world and they have fed their flesh so much that the only thing that seems desirable to them are things that are sinful. They will ask things like: What do you do if you're not watching TV all day? What do you do if you're not playing video games? What do you do if you're not hanging out with your friends?  And they literally have no idea what the joy of the Lord is. They have no joy in the joy of the Lord. They only take pleasure in junk food and things that are sinful. There is a good reason for that. If you're always eating junk food, if you're, if you're always sitting around watching TV, you'll become more and more accustomed to being lazy and taking naps. Telling people that you're tired, you're become more and more unproductive. But the busier you get in the kingdom of God, the more that you will enjoy encouraging people, speaking the words of life that Jesus has put in you out of your prayer life. The better you'll get at loving others, the better you will become that being patient and kind and you'll be filled with the Holy Spirit, and you will enjoy spending time with the Lord and exercising your spiritual authority in the Lord. The way we overcome sin is by becoming spiritually in shape and the way we do that, of course, is by working on our prayer life, fasting, if that's necessary,  disciplining your spirit to like what is good and to immediately reject what is unholy. A lot of people don't know how to take every thought captive. They think that every thought that comes into their mind, they have to dwell upon. But true meditation of the Lord and of his words come when we meditate on the words of Jesus, and we only let those things into our heart. But we immediately reject things that we know are sinful and of Satan's kingdom. And if we're able to monitor everything that comes into us through our eyes and our ears, if we're able to do that, that is the very beginning of being able to cast out demons and to be purged of sin. It's not because we're something great, but it's because when we draw close to God, he draws close to us and when we resist the devil, he will flee. Now there's a deception that Christians believe that if you just get in the church and read the Bible and start quoting the scripture, you'll be able to overcome sin. And that just isn't true. I grew up knowing the Bible. I grew up quoting the scripture. Yet I was not able to overcome sin with doing that. I know people point out where Jesus speaks scripture to Satan to overcome the devil when he was in the wilderness. But the truth is, Jesus didn't just quote this scripture, guys. He resisted Satan. And I tell people: What if you quote scripture against Satan, but you show the devil you're a hypocrite because you don't practice what you preach? Are you going to overcome Satan? Of course not. If you're saying that sexual immorality is against God, yet you're lusting and you're falling into pornography and falling into these lusts, then you're not going to overcome the devil's power and his authority inside of your soul. He has his grasp on you still. The only way that you're going to overcome demons is by feeding your spiritual man or your spiritual woman and bringing that man or that woman of your flesh all the way to the ground, all the way into the grave. You have to not just emaciated, but you have to push that old person, that old evil personality into the ground. So you have to resist the lust of the flesh, things that you know are sinful and evil, which includes evil music. It includes most all of the media TV, things on your cell phone that are impure. All of these little parasites... ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4SOKEaXGg4