At divinestreamradio.com, we are inspired by the powerful teachings of Andrew Wommack, who reminds us that God's love for us is already established and abundant. According to Wommack, there's no need to beg God to love people or to touch their lives—because He already does!
In his latest message, Andrew emphasizes that God's love was demonstrated through the sacrifice of His Son, as stated in John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." This foundational truth reveals that God's willingness to save is already there; our role is to believe and speak that truth.
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Andrew shares his personal journey of prayer, recalling how he used to plead with God for revival through all-night prayer meetings. However, real change came when he realized that prayer should not be about manipulating God but about trusting His already-established love and power. He recounts a pivotal moment when he told God, "If You love the people in Arlington, Texas half as much as I do, we would have revival." That realization shifted his approach from begging to declaring God's love and power.
The core message is clear: God moves through His people—through preaching the Gospel and sharing the truth. Andrew warns against the deception of the devil, who seeks to divert believers into political activism and other good deeds that can overshadow the primary calling of the church: preaching the Gospel and changing hearts.
While Andrew supports political involvement, he stresses that the church's true strength lies in proclaiming the Word of God. Changing hearts through the Gospel will ultimately influence laws and societal values more effectively than political campaigns alone.
He also addresses the importance of speaking the truth boldly, even in the face of criticism. Sharing the Gospel and speaking God's Word are essential for salvation—people cannot be born again without hearing the truth. Prayer is vital, but it should complement our active, faith-filled proclamation of God's promises.
Practical Prayer Tip: Instead of pleading for God to save someone, Andrew advises thanking God that it is His will for all to come to repentance. Recognize that Jesus has already paid for everyone's sins—acceptance comes through making Him Lord of your life.
This message challenges believers to shift from a begging posture to a confident declaration of God's love and power. Remember, God's love is already poured out, and the Gospel is the most powerful tool to see lives transformed.
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Inspiration from Andrew Wommack:
Because God's already wanting to minister to you. Don't spend any time pleading with God to ‘please love people. Please touch them. Please move in their life.’ In John 3:16 God already said that ‘He so loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believes in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life!’
Andrew Wommack says he knows what he’s saying is just different than the way most people pray, but that ‘most people’ aren't getting very, very good results with their prayers.
And when you don’t get results you ought to try something different.
Andrew says, “I'm telling you, what is working, this is working.”
He says
When I first started in the ministry, I used to plead with God. I used to pray for revival and beg and plead. I started all night prayer meetings where we just pled with God for revival and begged and cried out and wailed and travailed.
But you know what? Andrew says, Finally, one day, I actually caught myself doing this. I had divided the city of Arlington, Texas, where I lived up into sections. And I was praying over these sections and begging God to move. ‘Oh God, please touch these people.’ And, ‘oh God, we've got to have a revival.’ And I was giving God all the statistics to impress on Him how important this was and that He really needed to do something. I was trying to manipulate, motivate, move God. And I actually heard these words come out of my mouth. I said, ‘God, if you love the people in Arlington, Texas half as much as I do, we would have revival.’
As soon as I said that I figured something's wrong with my prayer. I was making a serious mistake, and this is exactly what the church is still doing. The church is begging, ‘oh God, send revival. Oh God, if You wanted to, you could pour out Your Spirit on America, and things could change.’
And that's not true!
You know how God moves in this earth-through his people. He moves through us! He moves through us, preaching the gospel, preaching the truth, and I tell You, I believe Satan is the one who is behind some of the movements in the body of Christ today and that is getting us into doing everything except preaching the gospel.
Andrew goes on:
You know, I believe in political action. I really do. I vote. I take it seriously. I try and influence other people. I don't do it really overtly on television and radio, because, you know, the problems that the government sees with me using a tax exempt status for political purposes. But in my private life, I have an opinion, and I share it with people, and I do things like that. I believe in being political. I believe that we've got an opportunity, and so I take advantage of it. But you know what? I really do believe that it's a deception of the devil to try and get people to put all of their energies, especially Christians, into the political process, because the political process is not the strength of the church.
The early Founding Fathers of the United States. I remember James Madison one time. I believe it was James Madison, but it might have been another, anyway. It was one of those early Founding Fathers said ‘that democracy is totally unsuited for any nation but a nation of moral people and that if we ever cease to be moral, democracy will destroy this nation. And you know what? That's literally what's happening. We are legalizing immorality. We are making statements and doing things that you can get in to the political process and try and pass constitutional amendments and do this and all of these things. And I'm saying, ‘Do what there is to do, but the real strength of the church is preaching the gospel and changing the hearts of men. And if people's hearts get changed, then the political arena will reflect it.’ You know why these laws are being passed promoting immorality, because the church hasn't done its job. We haven't been preaching the truth of the Gospel. We've lost the hearts of people, and those hearts are passing laws and misusing the political process. If we would get back and see people's lives changed, I guarantee you the church would do more to change any nation they live in by preaching the gospel and telling the truth than they would by political processes, or by praying and begging God for revival. God told us to go out and preach the Gospel. People will know the truth, and the truth will set them free, and that's where our strength lies. And I believe Satan is the one that is behind many of these things, even good things, but ‘good things sometimes oppose God’s things’ things that in their place are okay. But when you take something that just an option, something that every person should do as a political, you know, an option, a responsibility. Those things are good in their place. But when you put that up in the top drawer , and that becomes the driving force, and Christians are trying to mobilize and take control of the government and do this, that's not the way that God told us to influence the nation. It is through our preaching of the Gospel.
Andrew Wommack goes on to say:
It is through the truth I tell you what I am doing more on television and on radio, speaking the truth and telling people the truth, I am doing more to affect the political process than I ever would by getting out and picketing an abortion clinic. Now I'm not saying that all that’s wrong. I'm saying in its place, there is a place for everything but the power, the number one power in the church is the preaching of the Gospel, and we have been compromising that because people don't understand these laws that we're talking about. God gave us power and authority to preach the Gospel, and that's how he changes people's hearts. And instead of us preaching the gospel and speaking these truths and boldly proclaiming them. Instead, we've retreated to our prayer closets and we're just praying, and we're afraid to say anything, lest somebody says that we're politically incorrect.
You know, I get a lot of criticism when I go on television and on radio. I'm just pretty plain spoken. I'm not trying to be mean to anybody, but I just don't want anybody to misunderstand me. And so you know what, I'm pretty blunt, and I get a lot of criticism. People think I'm of the devil. I've received letters and threats and different things. And you know what, there's a lot of people that are just afraid to tell the truth because somebody's gonna criticize them for it. And so what they do is retreat and begin to pray and ask God to do what He told us to do. God told us to preach the Gospel. He chose, through the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe - you cannot be born again without hearing the Word of God. And I tell you, there are a lot of Christians today who aren't emphasizing the Word of God. They aren't speaking the truth. They don't tell a person the truth. Instead, they just smile and shake their head and agree with ungodliness, and then go into their prayer closet and say, ‘Oh, God, convict them.’
How's he going to convict them without the truth? You got to preach the truth, you know. Let me just share with you how to pray for a lost person, I know that some people are going to take what I've said and say that ‘so you're against prayer. You don't believe that prayer is effective!’
No, I believe prayer is super effective, but prayer is useless to substitute for something that God told us to do. There is a right use of prayer. Prayer is like water. Once you plant a seed, then it's got to be watered, and then it's got to be fertilized, and you'll get a much greater crop if you water it and fertilize than if you just let it die. You know, because it doesn't have enough moisture and nutrients to will die, prayer is effective, but prayer isn't a substitute for planting the seed. You can water barren ground, and barren ground will never produce if there's no seeds in it. You've got to plant the seed. The Word of God is how people are born again. You've got to have the word, it's the truth that sets people free. But once the word has been sown, yes, prayer is effective. There is a right use of prayer, but I believe that it's being misused by the church today. It's being substituted for doing what God told us to do.
Here's a right way to pray.
Let me just give you some scriptures in Second Peter, chapter three, verse nine, it says ‘The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some man count slackness, but is long suffering to us ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.’
So as you begin to start praying for a person, first of all, quit begging God to love these people. And ‘oh, God, please save this person like, God, I love them. I know you don't care for him as much as I do, but oh, God, could you please intervene in this person's life?’
You need to recognize God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. God loves the person who is lost infinitely more than you do. You do not have to beg and plead to motivate God to save this person. That should be out of the equation. So you could start with this verse and just start thanking him, Father. I thank You that it is not your will that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and start thanking Him, ‘and God, thank You that You've already provided First John, chapter two, verse two. Let me read this passage to you. It says, ‘And He speaking of Jesus, is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. ‘
God not only loves the whole world, but he has already died for the sins of the whole world. He's already paid for them. A person who goes to hell is going to go to hell with his sins paid for. The reason he will go to Hell is because he rejected the payment. You can only accept that through Jesus, through making Jesus the Lord of your life. And so the sin that is going to send people to Hell is not their adultery. They're cussing and chewing and all these kind of things, but it's the rejection of Jesus that's going to send people to hell. Their sins were already paid for, and it's just a matter of, will you accept it? Will you make Jesus your Lord and receive this forgiveness?
Are you going to try some other way to be accepting to God, or just totally ignore it and reject it and go your own way? So God loves these people. He's already paid for their sins. You don't have to plead with God. You don't have to ask God to do something. What else can God do to save him that he hasn't done? He's already sent Jesus. He's already died for their sins. There is nothing left for God to do to save the person you're praying for. I know I'm just shocking some of you, but you need to be shocked. This is just wrong. Praying. Don't beg God to love people and to save them as if he doesn't care for them. As much as you do. Start by praising him, father. Thank You that it's not Your will that any perish, but that all come to repentance. Thank You that You’ve already made provision. You are already the propitiation, that means the atoning sacrifice for everyone's sins, not only those who believe, but those are also that are lost. So Father, I thank You that You already you want them to be saved. You've already provided it. Now I stand here as an intercessor. Now this is where you start doing your part. You take your authority and you start speaking the things that need to happen. See, God has to flow through a person. So you start praying, and you say things like, ‘Father, the Word says, Romans, 10 verse 17, ‘how can they believe? Except they preach in all of this. So then faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God.’ So therefore Father, I'm praying the Word of God will come across their path. Matthew, chapter nine, verse 38 says, ‘Pray ye, therefore the Lord of the harvest that He would send forth laborers into His harvest.’ Again. See this is centering around the word. They've got to hear the Word of God first. Peter, chapter one, verse 23 says, ‘Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible seed, by the Word of God that lives and abides forever, the word has to come across this person's path.’ So you pray. Matthew 9 verse 38, Father, here I stand as an intercessor, and I'm praying laborers across their paths. I'm believing that right now, somebody is coming to them. If they're in a bar, let a preacher walk into the bar and go to proclaiming the gospel to them. Let somebody speak the word father. Send radio, television signals across their path. Send workers that are going to sit next to them at their job, that'll start telling them about the Word of God and tell them about your great love for them.
Pray that the word that they've already heard will come flooding back to their remembrance.
John 14 verse 26 talks about the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost. When he has come, He will teach you all things, lead you into all truth and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I've spoken unto you, so then pray that the words that they learned when they were kids, whether it was Sunday school or at home or in grade school will come flooding back to their remembrance. You've got to get the word to them and offer yourself as a vessel. I tell you, I believe that it's very ineffective for you to pray, ‘God, send laborers across their path, to bring back to their remembrance.’ D
o all of this. If you are the one sitting next to them and have opportunity to tell them the truth, then you ought to share it. Now I do admit that there are some instances where a person, because of whatever reason, has just totally cut you off, or maybe it's distance, or, you know, there could be other things that you aren't able to speak directly to this person. So there are some instances where that's true and you have to pray for laborers and the word to come back to their remembrance. And that's appropriate if you can't do it, but if you can speak to them. You know, if I was praying for a person to be saved and praying that God would bring the word to him, and then as I was praying, the Lord said, you go talk to him. I'd stop my prayer right there, and I'd go talk to that person. I'd call them on the phone. I would act on it right then, and I wouldn't pray about it anymore until I'd done as God instructed me to do. So you pray that the word will come back to their remembrance and do all of these kinds of things.
