# Tell God what you WANT

An episode of [Amani Talks Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1669865575), 28 Jul 2026, 26 min.

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Why are we sometimes reluctant or even afraid to give God the details when we pray? Let's discuss getting more specific when we speak to Him and what that does for our relationship. *DISCLAIMER* 20 minutes of my video did not save right in the middle of me recording so this one is a little shorter than I planned but I still hope you enjoy it!* Register for the 2026 RELATIONSHIP ESSENTIALS CONFERENCE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/relationship-essentials-conference-2026-tickets-1988131297229 DONATE TO THE CONFERENCE: https://givebutter.com/c/recon2026 Join the 2026 CHRISTIAN GIRL'S TRIP: CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA https://luxetribes.com/trips/south-africa-hosted-trip-with-amani/ Get on the RELATIONSHIP ESSENTIALS APP: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/relationship-essentials/id6639605994 FOR SPONSORSHIPS & COLLABS 📧 : amani@a-listme.com

## Transcript

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[2:20] Speaker 1: episode for today. I had someone DM me something that
[2:24] Speaker 1: a few people have asked me about, and it's actually
[2:27] Speaker 1: on my list of topics that I've been wanting to
[2:29] Speaker 1: talk about on the podcast. So I said, why not.
[2:31] Speaker 1: So I'm not going to, of course say her name.
[2:33] Speaker 1: I don't know she's even comfortable. I'm just gonna make
[2:36] Speaker 1: it anonymous, right, So this is what I got DM.
[2:39] Speaker 1: Just really a couple days ago. So one of my
[2:41] Speaker 1: followers DM me, and she says, hi, Amani, my name
[2:45] Speaker 1: is so and so, and I really enjoy your YouTube videos.
[2:48] Speaker 1: They have truly blessed me. Can you do a video
[2:51] Speaker 1: on why should we pray specific prayers? Thank you, and
[2:55] Speaker 1: I hope you see this DM. Have a blessed night.
[2:57] Speaker 1: Well girl. I saw the DM okay, and I definitely
[3:01] Speaker 1: want to talk about this because I am so huge
[3:04] Speaker 1: on praying very specific prayers. This is something that has
[3:09] Speaker 1: really shaped my faith and has been a tool to
[3:12] Speaker 1: really grow my faith when it comes to just my
[3:15] Speaker 1: personal relationship with the Lord, learning to trust him, just
[3:20] Speaker 1: all these different things. The way that I have one
[3:22] Speaker 1: tool that I have really learned or used to mature
[3:25] Speaker 1: my faith is praying specific prayers. We all know that
[3:29] Speaker 1: a Christian's prayer life is one of the most important
[3:32] Speaker 1: aspects of your relationship with Christ. I mean, it's literally
[3:35] Speaker 1: how we talk to Him, and it's there's such a
[3:38] Speaker 1: huge emphasis on it. Of course, your church will tell
[3:41] Speaker 1: you to pray, and the Word tells you to pray,
[3:45] Speaker 1: and it's just something that we do out of obedience,
[3:47] Speaker 1: But there is so much more to prayer, and the
[3:50] Speaker 1: way that you pray really matters. I just recently learned
[3:55] Speaker 1: that there are even prayer methods. In the last two
[3:59] Speaker 1: to three years, I thought that you could just get
[4:02] Speaker 1: on a hotline and tell God what you want. You
[4:04] Speaker 1: know what I mean, and you can. That's definitely how
[4:07] Speaker 1: it starts out for a lot of us. But as
[4:10] Speaker 1: you mature and as you grow and as you learn,
[4:12] Speaker 1: your prayers should be shaped a specific way. For example,
[4:16] Speaker 1: my church that I attend right now, we have corporate
[4:19] Speaker 1: prayer with our church every morning on Zoom, and there
[4:22] Speaker 1: is a very specific structure to how we pray together
[4:25] Speaker 1: as a church family. We always start with Thanksgiving, right,
[4:29] Speaker 1: because the Word tells us enter his courts with thanksgiving,
[4:32] Speaker 1: and well, let me pull up the verse. I want
[4:35] Speaker 1: to make sure I'm saying it right. Some one hundred
[4:37] Speaker 1: and four says enter into his gates with thanksgiving and
[4:40] Speaker 1: into his courts with praise. And the more you research prayer,
[4:44] Speaker 1: you will come upon different types of prayer. I remember
[4:46] Speaker 1: when I was visiting a church a few years ago,
[4:49] Speaker 1: they had a prayer vigil and they were teaching the
[4:52] Speaker 1: different methods of prayer, and one thing that they said
[4:55] Speaker 1: was reciting scripture in your prayer is not only a
[4:59] Speaker 1: tool that you can use to help you remember prayer
[5:01] Speaker 1: and like the Word says, to hide it in your heart,
[5:04] Speaker 1: but also it gives meaning to your prayer. You understand
[5:08] Speaker 1: that this is what I'm asking the Lord, and I
[5:10] Speaker 1: can find this in scripture to support this, and you're
[5:13] Speaker 1: kind of bringing the Lord's promises back to him. So
[5:15] Speaker 1: there are all different types of ways that you can pray, right,
[5:18] Speaker 1: But for me, I have seen my faith grow the
[5:22] Speaker 1: most by very specific prayer. So I'll give you an
[5:24] Speaker 1: example of a specific prayer. When I allow the Lord
[5:27] Speaker 1: to take over my podcast and my YouTube as well.
[5:32] Speaker 1: I really wanted to see growth in my YouTube. Some
[5:36] Speaker 1: people might see that as a petty prayer, a selfish
[5:39] Speaker 1: peer prayer. Oh why would God care about if you
[5:42] Speaker 1: hit fifty k, if you hit one hundred k, if
[5:44] Speaker 1: your YouTube girls, Why would God care about that? There
[5:47] Speaker 1: are bigger things. They are bigger fish to fry, you know.
[5:50] Speaker 1: And that's the attitude of the type of person who
[5:53] Speaker 1: does not want to pray specific prayers because they think
[5:58] Speaker 1: that the specificities of their life the Lord does not
[6:00] Speaker 1: care about, or that they're not important enough to pray about.
[6:04] Speaker 1: So I have always been taught just by being in church.
[6:08] Speaker 1: I've always been taught when I was little in Sunday School,
[6:11] Speaker 1: you can pray to the Lord about anything, And in
[6:14] Speaker 1: my young mind I'm internalizing that as Okay, Well, if
[6:19] Speaker 1: I want extra lunch money, I can pray to the
[6:21] Speaker 1: Lord for that. As I get older, I pray for
[6:25] Speaker 1: parking spots, I pray when I lose my keys and
[6:28] Speaker 1: I'm running late, and I'm like, Lord, please help me
[6:30] Speaker 1: find my keys, And then I find my keys. So
[6:33] Speaker 1: I pray for very little things because the Lord does
[6:36] Speaker 1: not just care about the big things. He doesn't just
[6:38] Speaker 1: care about who you marry, he doesn't just care about
[6:41] Speaker 1: your career. He cares about the everyday things. And when
[6:44] Speaker 1: you start to realize that the longer goal of your
[6:48] Speaker 1: relationship with the Lord, to mature, to know more about him,
[6:50] Speaker 1: to know more about your purpose, is built on the
[6:54] Speaker 1: every day, you start to realize the small things is
[6:57] Speaker 1: what makes up the big or the small things are
[6:59] Speaker 1: what make up the bigger things. Right, So I peryed
[7:03] Speaker 1: and I was like, God, I really want my YouTube
[7:05] Speaker 1: to grow because I think I was at that time
[7:07] Speaker 1: making most of my money off of TikTok, and I
[7:10] Speaker 1: really didn't like that. I really didn't like that all
[7:12] Speaker 1: of my money as a content creator was coming from
[7:14] Speaker 1: one place, because it allows instability to grow when you
[7:18] Speaker 1: only have one source of income, what if that source
[7:20] Speaker 1: shuts down? You know, we had a TikTok shut down.
[7:23] Speaker 1: I mean it only lasted like five hours, but people
[7:26] Speaker 1: were really scared about it because TikTok was their only
[7:28] Speaker 1: source of income. TikTok shop or the Creator Fund was
[7:32] Speaker 1: how they were making their money. They were not making
[7:33] Speaker 1: their money off of Instagram, Facebook, YouTube. And I just
[7:37] Speaker 1: really wanted to be more of a YouTube GIRLI like,
[7:39] Speaker 1: you know, I didn't really have some profound reason. I
[7:41] Speaker 1: didn't like that all my money came from one source.
[7:43] Speaker 1: And I just thought that YouTube was just cooler. I
[7:45] Speaker 1: like longer form content. I like having a community that
[7:49] Speaker 1: knows more about my life than thirty second snippets of
[7:51] Speaker 1: about where I shop, you know what I mean. So,
[7:54] Speaker 1: and I had wanted that for years. I actually got
[7:56] Speaker 1: my start in content creation off of YouTube. You know,
[7:59] Speaker 1: a lot of people don't even know that I did
[8:01] Speaker 1: not start on TikTok. I start off of YouTube, like
[8:04] Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, something like that. So I
[8:08] Speaker 1: really just always wanted to go back to YouTube. And
[8:10] Speaker 1: I was like, Lord, please drow my YouTube, and he did.
[8:15] Speaker 1: I asked him to hit one hundred k, and he
[8:17] Speaker 1: made that happen. And this is why I say that
[8:20] Speaker 1: very specific and what others may call a petty or
[8:23] Speaker 1: a small prayer have really helped shape my faith and
[8:27] Speaker 1: grow my faith with the Lord because when we have
[8:30] Speaker 1: these very specific things that we are asking the Lord
[8:33] Speaker 1: to meet, Right, if I say, Lord, I need help
[8:36] Speaker 1: with A, B and C. When I pray specifically like that,
[8:40] Speaker 1: I have to wait for the Lord to show up
[8:42] Speaker 1: in these very specific ways. I have to check off
[8:44] Speaker 1: these boxes so that I can know that the Lord
[8:48] Speaker 1: showed up. Right, if I would have just prayed a
[8:50] Speaker 1: more general prayer, if I would have been like, Lord,
[8:53] Speaker 1: just give me success in my career, well, what does
[8:57] Speaker 1: success in your career look like? Success in your career
[9:00] Speaker 1: can look like you just having a career. A lot
[9:02] Speaker 1: of people don't have a career. And I could just pray, Lord,
[9:06] Speaker 1: whatever your will is, just give me success in my career.
[9:09] Speaker 1: Is that a correct prayer? Yes, we pray and we
[9:12] Speaker 1: ask God for his will in all things, and we
[9:14] Speaker 1: accept what the Lord will give us. But there is
[9:18] Speaker 1: nothing wrong with saying, Lord, I want this. There's nothing
[9:22] Speaker 1: wrong with that. Actually, the Lord invites us to be
[9:26] Speaker 1: very specific with him. He invites us to test him
[9:31] Speaker 1: to be honest with you. So when I see the
[9:34] Speaker 1: Lord show up in these very specific ways that I
[9:37] Speaker 1: am able to look back on and say check, check, check,
[9:39] Speaker 1: the Lord has done these things. Not only does that
[9:43] Speaker 1: build my trust in him, because when the trust is
[9:46] Speaker 1: built on the smaller things, now I trust him for
[9:49] Speaker 1: the larger things. But also it helps me to give
[9:52] Speaker 1: him the glory for all things, because if I pray
[9:55] Speaker 1: for a B and C and the Lord did a
[9:58] Speaker 1: B and C, I cannot call that a ca. You know,
[10:01] Speaker 1: the word tells us that every good and perfect gift
[10:03] Speaker 1: comes from above, But oftentimes we don't really trust that.
[10:06] Speaker 1: We don't believe that. We think that a lot of
[10:08] Speaker 1: things come from us. We think that they come from circumstance,
[10:11] Speaker 1: from coincidence. There is nothing coincidental in our lives, whether
[10:14] Speaker 1: it be about God or the enemy. Everything is very
[10:19] Speaker 1: there's a plan, there is a path for you. Everything
[10:22] Speaker 1: is very methodical. Like I said, whether it comes from
[10:24] Speaker 1: the Lord or the enemy, whatever the Lord wants to
[10:27] Speaker 1: build up, that's the thing that the devil wants to
[10:28] Speaker 1: break down. So I have just learned that for me,
[10:32] Speaker 1: I've just and I've said this a million times, like
[10:34] Speaker 1: I'm just not a words of affirmation person. I don't
[10:36] Speaker 1: care what you say to me. I gotta see something,
[10:38] Speaker 1: Like people have to show me that I can trust them. Right,
[10:42] Speaker 1: For example, my husband. When I met him, I didn't
[10:44] Speaker 1: just trust him off the bat. I didn't be like, oh, yeah,
[10:47] Speaker 1: I trust that you will be a good husband, let's
[10:49] Speaker 1: get married tomorrow. No, it took come a year to
[10:52] Speaker 1: convince me that I could trust him. Right, And that's
[10:55] Speaker 1: the relationship that the Lord invites us to because he
[11:00] Speaker 1: knows on some level that he has to earn our
[11:02] Speaker 1: trust and stay with me when I say this, right,
[11:07] Speaker 1: we are not counted as righteous, but by our trust
[11:10] Speaker 1: in the Lord. We're counted as righteous by our faith.
[11:13] Speaker 1: And faith does not necessarily need trust. You can have
[11:19] Speaker 1: faith in the situation, but the trust grows over time,
[11:22] Speaker 1: like when we talk about Abraham. Right, the Lord counted
[11:25] Speaker 1: his righteousness from Abraham's faith. But we know that Abraham
[11:29] Speaker 1: didn't always trust God. We can see that he didn't
[11:32] Speaker 1: trust God when he had Ishmael, before he had Isaac,
[11:35] Speaker 1: the Lord told him, trust me, I will give you
[11:37] Speaker 1: these things, and he still took matters into his own
[11:39] Speaker 1: hands and send just to have a son. The Lord
[11:42] Speaker 1: told him that he was going to give him a son. Right.
[11:44] Speaker 1: But when the years got passed, and the years went past,
[11:47] Speaker 1: and the years went past, Abraham stopped trusting God, and
[11:49] Speaker 1: he took matters into his own hands and had Isaac
[11:52] Speaker 1: whenever Abraham and Sarah traveled. Abraham did not trust God
[11:56] Speaker 1: to protect him against the king, and that's why he
[11:59] Speaker 1: lied and said, oh, Sarah is my sister. He didn't
[12:02] Speaker 1: say that Sarah was his wife, that was his wife.
[12:05] Speaker 1: He opened his wife up to potentially be sexually assaulted
[12:08] Speaker 1: by kings because he thought, oh, Sarah, so beautiful. If
[12:11] Speaker 1: we go to these foreign places and they don't even
[12:14] Speaker 1: know who God is, they'll take you and they'll kill me.
[12:17] Speaker 1: He did not trust God to protect him. He could
[12:19] Speaker 1: have prayed and been like, Lord, protect me and my
[12:21] Speaker 1: wife while we travel. He didn't say that. Once again,
[12:24] Speaker 1: he took matters into his own hands because he truly
[12:26] Speaker 1: did not trust the Lord. Mind you, these instances were
[12:30] Speaker 1: after the Lord counted Abraham as righteous because of his faith.
[12:35] Speaker 1: So our relationship with God, it needs faith, but the
[12:39] Speaker 1: trust that we have with him is built over time.
[12:42] Speaker 1: Because even with those two scenarios with Abraham, Abraham sinned
[12:47] Speaker 1: to get what he wanted because he didn't trust God.
[12:49] Speaker 1: But God and his faithfulness still gave Abraham what he wanted.
[12:52] Speaker 1: God could have been like, oh you didn't want to
[12:55] Speaker 1: wait for me for a son. Ishmael is your son,
[12:57] Speaker 1: then go have fun dealing with that baby, Mama and
[13:00] Speaker 1: your wife. God could have really did that. God could
[13:03] Speaker 1: have been like, oh, you don't trust me to protect
[13:05] Speaker 1: you and Sarah okay, Syah's is not the King's wife.
[13:10] Speaker 1: That's what you wanted, right. The Lord could really leave
[13:13] Speaker 1: us to our own devices and choices and decisions. Every
[13:17] Speaker 1: single time we decide not to trust him. But he
[13:19] Speaker 1: is so faithful and he loves us so much that
[13:22] Speaker 1: he knows that we're going to fail in our trust
[13:24] Speaker 1: with him, and he is willing to prove himself over
[13:28] Speaker 1: and over again to us to build that trust. And
[13:31] Speaker 1: for me, the way that I have been able to
[13:33] Speaker 1: build trust in my relationship with the Lord is by
[13:37] Speaker 1: asking him, Lord, I need or I want ex y
[13:41] Speaker 1: and Z and watching him work it out every single time.
[13:45] Speaker 1: But if you pray these general prayers because you think
[13:48] Speaker 1: that your everyday life is not significant to the Lord,
[13:51] Speaker 1: if you pray prayers like not saying that these prayers
[13:54] Speaker 1: are wrong, but you can pray prayers like Lord and
[13:58] Speaker 1: hunger and rural life. UK, Lord, please save the people
[14:04] Speaker 1: of Tanzania. You can pray those prayers. Are they wrong? No?
[14:09] Speaker 1: But while you're asking the Lord to in hunger in
[14:13] Speaker 1: the countryside of the UK, well, are you gonna go
[14:17] Speaker 1: in two to three years and go check if the
[14:19] Speaker 1: UK government has enacted some kind of program to make
[14:22] Speaker 1: sure all their citizens eat? Are you going to actually
[14:24] Speaker 1: check in on that? How do you know that that
[14:26] Speaker 1: prayer is getting answered? You can pray for all the
[14:30] Speaker 1: widows and orphans in Tanzania to be taken care of,
[14:32] Speaker 1: but are you gonna take that missionary trip to go
[14:34] Speaker 1: to Tanzania in five years and make sure that all
[14:36] Speaker 1: the widows and orphans are taken care of? Probably not?
[14:39] Speaker 1: So how are you really fact checking your prayers? How
[14:42] Speaker 1: are you growing that trust that the Lord hears my
[14:45] Speaker 1: prayers and are answering them? Which is really a huge
[14:48] Speaker 1: part of our relationship with God is when we talk
[14:50] Speaker 1: to him and we see how he's working things out
[14:54] Speaker 1: on our behalf. Are you fact checking? Are you gonna
[14:57] Speaker 1: go to Tanzania? Are you gonna go to rule UK?
[14:59] Speaker 1: You probably aren't. So it's okay to pray these very general,
[15:05] Speaker 1: nonspecific grand prayers about ending world hunger and world peace
[15:10] Speaker 1: and all these things. But unless you are really able
[15:13] Speaker 1: to see what's going on, how do you ever go
[15:17] Speaker 1: back and how are you ever able to go back
[15:19] Speaker 1: and say, oh, the Lord worked in this way. For example,
[15:22] Speaker 1: I can pray for my sister to be saved, and
[15:26] Speaker 1: because I know my sister and I see my sister,
[15:29] Speaker 1: I can see if she's been saved. I can pray
[15:32] Speaker 1: for ten thousand dollars to be in my bank account
[15:34] Speaker 1: for a certain project that I want to do, and
[15:36] Speaker 1: I can visibly see if the Lord puts ten thousand
[15:39] Speaker 1: dollars in that bank account. But when you're not specific
[15:42] Speaker 1: enough in your prayers and you're very general, it's almost
[15:44] Speaker 1: like a cop out. It's almost like you being able
[15:47] Speaker 1: to say, oh, I pray to my prayer for the day,
[15:49] Speaker 1: but you never really get to see the Lord work
[15:52] Speaker 1: in very specific ways in your life. And I think
[15:55] Speaker 1: people who are afraid to be very specific in their
[15:58] Speaker 1: prayers just really don't trust the Lord. That's what it
[16:00] Speaker 1: all comes down to. They don't really trust what the
[16:04] Speaker 1: Word says. When the Word and the Lord and the
[16:07] Speaker 1: Bible is telling us test me. You know. One of
[16:12] Speaker 1: my favorite versus in the Bible, because one thing that
[16:17] Speaker 1: people when we talk about trusting the Lord and being
[16:20] Speaker 1: very specific. One thing that people tend to not trust
[16:24] Speaker 1: the Lord in this area of their life is their finances.
[16:27] Speaker 1: And me and my husband were just literally just talking
[16:29] Speaker 1: about this, like literally just last night, about tithing, about
[16:33] Speaker 1: how a lot of people don't truly tithe. They will
[16:36] Speaker 1: come to church on Sunday and they'll give Oh, I
[16:39] Speaker 1: got an extra twenty in my pocketbook. They don't truly
[16:41] Speaker 1: even tithe. They don't give an offering. And let me
[16:45] Speaker 1: just say this too, when the Lord commands us to
[16:48] Speaker 1: give tithe and offering, and I will, you know, bring
[16:51] Speaker 1: up verses to support this when he commands us to
[16:53] Speaker 1: give tithe and offering. If you are not really giving
[16:57] Speaker 1: tithe and offering every single time the Lord gives you
[16:59] Speaker 1: an income, then you're not being obedient, even if you're
[17:03] Speaker 1: somebody that's not Oh you know, I don't just put
[17:05] Speaker 1: twenty in the offering play. No, when I get paid,
[17:07] Speaker 1: I really do give the Lord a tenth? Do you
[17:09] Speaker 1: give a tenth every single time? This isn't judgment, It's
[17:13] Speaker 1: really a time of self reflection because one thing that
[17:16] Speaker 1: I've had to learn about in my relationship with God
[17:19] Speaker 1: is full obedience is not half obedience, or or not
[17:24] Speaker 1: being fully obedient does not count as half obedience. It
[17:28] Speaker 1: counts as full of disobedience. There is no middle ground
[17:33] Speaker 1: with the Lord. You think that you're able to kind
[17:35] Speaker 1: of like sit back and chill and be like, well,
[17:37] Speaker 1: I didn't sin today because I didn't lie, and I
[17:39] Speaker 1: didn't cheat, and I didn't steal, and I didn't murder.
[17:41] Speaker 1: But did you do what the Holy Spirit told you
[17:43] Speaker 1: to do? Oh? No, okay, well that's still a sin.
[17:47] Speaker 1: The Word tells us to him who knows to do
[17:49] Speaker 1: right and does not do it to him, it is
[17:51] Speaker 1: a sin. So there can be very personal sins outside
[17:55] Speaker 1: of the Ten commandments, and we think, oh, I didn't
[17:57] Speaker 1: kill nobody today, so I'm good. Did you read your
[18:00] Speaker 1: Bible today? Did you acknowledge the Lord and what he
[18:03] Speaker 1: gave you today? When the Holy Spirit told you not
[18:06] Speaker 1: to say that, did you listen or did you continue
[18:08] Speaker 1: to say it because it felt good to you. So
[18:11] Speaker 1: there are a lot of things that we feel like, oh,
[18:14] Speaker 1: I'm chilling when it comes with God. You know, I'll
[18:16] Speaker 1: give a twenty here and there, But that's not true obedience.
[18:19] Speaker 1: I had to learn from myself that if I'm not
[18:21] Speaker 1: willing to fully do exactly what God tells me to
[18:24] Speaker 1: do when he tells me to do it, I'm in disobedience.
[18:29] Speaker 1: You only make two choices on any matter. Trust God
[18:34] Speaker 1: and do what God tells you, or you're gonna do
[18:36] Speaker 1: what the devil tells you to do. There is no
[18:38] Speaker 1: in between, y'all. And I think when you take it
[18:40] Speaker 1: that seriously, you'll start to take your relationship with obedience
[18:44] Speaker 1: way more seriously because you cannot count. Once again, you
[18:47] Speaker 1: cannot count a half obedience as some obedience. No half
[18:51] Speaker 1: obedience is full disobedience. You can do what God tells
[18:54] Speaker 1: you to do, but if you do it a year
[18:56] Speaker 1: after He told you to do it, that's disobedience you
[18:59] Speaker 1: can give, but if you're not giving the full amount,
[19:01] Speaker 1: that's disobedience. So you know, one of my favorite verses
[19:06] Speaker 1: on trusting God with your finances comes from Malachi. Let's
[19:10] Speaker 1: start in Malachi chapter three, verse eight, and I read
[19:14] Speaker 1: from the New King James version. Malachi three eight says,
[19:17] Speaker 1: will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me?
[19:21] Speaker 1: And this is the Lord speaking, But you say, in
[19:24] Speaker 1: what way have we robbed you? In tides and offerings
[19:28] Speaker 1: you are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed
[19:31] Speaker 1: me even this whole nation. Bring all the tides into
[19:35] Speaker 1: the storehouse, that there may be food in my house.
[19:38] Speaker 1: And try me now. In this, says the Lord of Hosts.
[19:41] Speaker 1: If I will not open up for you the windows
[19:43] Speaker 1: of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that
[19:46] Speaker 1: there will not be room enough to receive it, the
[19:49] Speaker 1: Lord in chapter or in verse ten says, try me now.
[19:53] Speaker 1: In this, the Lord is literally saying, test me. In this,
[19:57] Speaker 1: try me, try me, try me, and see what I
[20:00] Speaker 1: would do for you. See, a lot of people don't
[20:02] Speaker 1: trust God enough to try him, and that's why they
[20:04] Speaker 1: won't pray specific prayers. They don't want to test God
[20:08] Speaker 1: because they're afraid that they'll be let down or that
[20:10] Speaker 1: God will not hear them. Or they'll tell people the
[20:14] Speaker 1: Lord told me this, and then it doesn't happen and
[20:17] Speaker 1: they feel like, oh, you know, I did something wrong.
[20:21] Speaker 1: The Lord is telling you try me, and this test me.
[20:24] Speaker 1: It's okay for you to test the Lord, But how
[20:27] Speaker 1: do you ever test him if you're not specific when
[20:29] Speaker 1: you talk to him? Because like I said, you can
[20:31] Speaker 1: pray a big prayer. Oh Lord, please save everybody in
[20:35] Speaker 1: my city. But if you aren't going to check up
[20:38] Speaker 1: on the people in your city, how do you know
[20:39] Speaker 1: that they're being saved? If you aren't even the person
[20:42] Speaker 1: going out and evangelizing, how are you even praying a
[20:45] Speaker 1: prayer asking God to do something? And we know that
[20:47] Speaker 1: the Lord uses us to reach the nation. The Lord
[20:51] Speaker 1: uses Oh, we are the Lord's hands and feet, and
[20:53] Speaker 1: you are not the one evangelizing to these people. You know,
[20:56] Speaker 1: we want to be able to kind of coast on. Oh,
[20:59] Speaker 1: I pray, I spoke to the Lord, spoke to the
[21:02] Speaker 1: Lord about what spoke to the Lord about what? So
[21:07] Speaker 1: for me a huge building block and maturing in my
[21:11] Speaker 1: faith and maturity goes hand in hand with trusting God
[21:15] Speaker 1: because you disobey because you don't trust them. That's really
[21:19] Speaker 1: what it is. You don't trust that if you tithe,
[21:21] Speaker 1: that He will open up for you the windows of
[21:23] Speaker 1: heaven and pour out such blessing that there will not
[21:25] Speaker 1: be enough room to receive it. You don't believe that,
[21:27] Speaker 1: so you don't tithe. You think, oh, well, if I
[21:31] Speaker 1: tie this between giving money to the church or giving
[21:34] Speaker 1: money to my bills, and my bills got to get paid.
[21:36] Speaker 1: So I just can't tie this week. That ain't it? Sorry,
[21:39] Speaker 1: that's not it. Dog. And when I was younger and
[21:41] Speaker 1: I would read about the prophets like Elijah, right and
[21:44] Speaker 1: during that battle of the priests of Oh, what's that
[21:48] Speaker 1: woman's name, Jezebel, and it was that battle against Okay,
[21:54] Speaker 1: is your God going to cause the fire to come down?
[21:56] Speaker 1: Or is my God going to And you know, just
[21:59] Speaker 1: at different times that the prophets would say things and
[22:01] Speaker 1: they will come to pass. And I was thinking, Okay,
[22:03] Speaker 1: either the Lord is telling these prophets to say these
[22:06] Speaker 1: things and that's why it's happening, or they are really
[22:09] Speaker 1: saying these things and the Lord is doing it. And
[22:11] Speaker 1: I'm like, how can they tell the Lord what to do?
[22:13] Speaker 1: Because sometimes it'd be very you know, things like when
[22:17] Speaker 1: Elisha when those kids were making fun of him and
[22:20] Speaker 1: then the beyar came and ate the kids. I'm like,
[22:22] Speaker 1: what in the world, you know? And it took me
[22:25] Speaker 1: a while to realize the Lord is honoring what these
[22:28] Speaker 1: men are saying, because they're honoring the Lord with their life.
[22:31] Speaker 1: You know, the Lord doesn't honor what we say sometimes
[22:35] Speaker 1: because we haven't submitted that thing to him. The Lord
[22:38] Speaker 1: honors who honors him. So when elisha is saying, Lord,
[22:42] Speaker 1: make the fire come down and burn up this sacrifice
[22:44] Speaker 1: so that these people will know that you are the Lord,
[22:48] Speaker 1: the Lord's getting the glory out of that. He is
[22:49] Speaker 1: going to honor what Elishah is saying. So I've just
[22:52] Speaker 1: come to realize that in my own life, as long
[22:56] Speaker 1: as I know that whatever I'm praying for, God is
[22:58] Speaker 1: going to get the glory out of it, that this
[23:01] Speaker 1: is not intrinsically just for my benefit, just so that
[23:05] Speaker 1: I can feel good about this thing. Because there are
[23:07] Speaker 1: things that we pray for and we pray out of
[23:09] Speaker 1: alignment and will never get it because God never, That's
[23:13] Speaker 1: not in God's will. You know, we pray for selfish reasons.
[23:18] Speaker 1: We use it for the flesh, you know, just different
[23:22] Speaker 1: reasons that the Lord won't honor what you say. But
[23:24] Speaker 1: I've truly come to realize there are a lot of
[23:27] Speaker 1: things that I have prayed about specifically that I have
[23:30] Speaker 1: seen to come past because I know that I honor
[23:33] Speaker 1: the Lord with my life. Do you know that you
[23:36] Speaker 1: honor the Lord with your life? Can you honestly say
[23:40] Speaker 1: I know that the Lord hears me, and that what
[23:43] Speaker 1: I want I am praying for in alignment with him,
[23:46] Speaker 1: because everything I do, I do it to the glory
[23:48] Speaker 1: of Him. The Bible tells us whether you eat or drink,
[23:51] Speaker 1: do it to the glory of God. Am I in
[23:53] Speaker 1: full obedience or in disobedience? So definitely this is time
[23:59] Speaker 1: of reflection for all of us, myself included, when it
[24:02] Speaker 1: comes to how am I actually living my life? Am
[24:05] Speaker 1: I able to be specific? Am I able to trust
[24:08] Speaker 1: that God is going to do what I asked when
[24:10] Speaker 1: I'm praying specifically because I truly am living my life
[24:13] Speaker 1: for him. You know, you can be specific all you want,
[24:16] Speaker 1: but if you have not submitted that thing to the Lord,
[24:19] Speaker 1: you're not going to see it happen. When I talked
[24:21] Speaker 1: about my YouTube, I was okay with praying a very
[24:24] Speaker 1: specific prayer about one hundred k because I had already
[24:27] Speaker 1: submitted my entire YouTube to the Lord and I didn't
[24:29] Speaker 1: care who didn't like it. I didn't care who was
[24:31] Speaker 1: talking bad about me on TikTok because my podcast got
[24:33] Speaker 1: turned around. I was still going to talk about God.
[24:35] Speaker 1: That was proof of me submitting my podcast to God.
[24:38] Speaker 1: So I was okay being like God, I want to
[24:41] Speaker 1: hit God. I want to hit one hundred K because
[24:44] Speaker 1: I had proven to myself and to God that this
[24:47] Speaker 1: was not about Amani anymore. It was all about him.
[24:49] Speaker 1: I was okay with praying about the very specific way
[24:53] Speaker 1: I wanted to meet my husband because it took some time,
[24:56] Speaker 1: but growing in my relationship with the Lord, I came
[25:00] Speaker 1: to realize what marriage is, what a godly marriage is,
[25:03] Speaker 1: what my marriage will be, what the Lord wants my
[25:07] Speaker 1: marriage to be, and to come into alignment with that.
[25:09] Speaker 1: So it's all about being in alignment with God and
[25:12] Speaker 1: really being honest with yourself. Have I given this thing
[25:15] Speaker 1: to God? Have I truly submitted it to him? And
[25:17] Speaker 1: once you can, honestly, for real, for real sit down
[25:20] Speaker 1: with yourself, and the answer to that question is yes.
[25:23] Speaker 1: Go ahead and be specific because the Lord will honor
[25:26] Speaker 1: your words when you honor him. All right, you guys,
[25:29] Speaker 1: So I will talk to you guys next week. Love
[25:33] Speaker 1: you be very specific with your relationship with God because
[25:36] Speaker 1: He is going to be very specific with you. All right,
[25:39] Speaker 1: talk to you later. Bye,

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