Glorious Sunday Worship Service
April 27th, 2025
Topic: GETTING THE ATTENTION OF JESUS
Text: Genesis 32:24-26, Acts 16:25-26, Matthew 8:5-10, 13, Mark 2:1-2, 4, 10:46-48
Minister: Dr Daniel Olukoya (G.O. MFM Worldwide)
A lot of people have been demoted; a lot have been cleverly manipulated from their place of destiny, and a lot are doing things they should not do because there is a power pushing them to do it. There are plenty of people who cannot really help themselves because of these powers.
We need to get the attention of Jesus here this morning and make things change to where they should be. That is why somebody has defined power as knowing what is supposed to be, seeing that what should be is not what is happening, and then deciding that what should be must be. A day will come in every life where your greatest need will be to get the attention of Jesus.
We can learn various lessons from various men and women in scriptures who got the attention of Jesus. We can glean lessons from what they did to get that attention. Let us look at some scriptural accounts before we now begin to look at the keys to getting the attention of Jesus. In Genesis, we see a case of the stubborn wrestler.
Genesis 32:24-26 (KJV) says, “And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. He was left alone, eagles do not fly in flocks. Most people who got anywhere with God, got there when they were alone with God. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.”
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
The prayer started at 10pm in the night and continued till 5am the next morning. Just one prayer point: unless you bless me, I will not let you go. This stubborn wrestler now got the attention of Jesus. That was one man.
In Acts 16:25 we read about the two night warriors.
Acts 16:25-26 (KJV) says, “And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.”
- It was midnight.
- They prayed.
- They sang praises, and they were not quiet about it, because other prisoners heard them. They were not ashamed at all. They were doing it in a loud voice so everyone in the prison could hear.
These men got attention. They rose at midnight, raised their voices to heaven and sang and prayed. Jacob got attention. He was alone. He stuck to one prayer for seven hours.
In Matthew 8, we see the story of the man who understood the mystery of authority. Notice that in the two cases we have read so far, we did not find men and women who broke down crying, covering their heads somewhere and crying that life has been unfair to them. They did not take that approach. They took action to get His attention.
● I know that there is someone here today; you shall get the attention of Jesus, and your days of weeping shall end, in the name of Jesus.
Matthew 8:5-10, 13 (KJV) says, “And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. What a very good man. The man had feelings for his servant, he did not come because of his child. He went out of his way to find Jesus to heal his servant. And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.”
“And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.”
The man understood authority. He said to Jesus, “Man of God, you do not need to touch him or come under my roof.” Everything we get from God is based on our faith.
If a man of God says in a meeting, “There is a man here with so-so thing,” apart from that person, any other person there can claim it by faith.
This centurion was a nice-hearted and kind man who had feelings for his servant, understood authority and had a great faith. He was able to get the attention of Jesus.
Mark 2:1-2 (KJV) says, “And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house. And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.”
These were people who came to Jesus, could not enter the door because of the crowd and then broke the roof to claim their miracle.
Mark 2:5 (KJV): “When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.”
That is active faith.
Mark 10:46 (KJV) says, “And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.”
● Every power that will want you to beg by the highway shall be disgraced, in the name of Jesus.
It would appear as if he was just a blind person, but he could see on the inside.
Mark 10:47-48 (KJV) says, “And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me. And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.”
They said, “Shut up, die in your blindness.” But the more they asked him to shut up, the more he increased his volume. He asked for mercy.
● Your mouth shall be larger than your enemies, in the name of Jesus.
Mark 10:49 (KJV) says, “And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee.”
His cry put a brake on Jesus, and Jesus stood still. Up till now, beloveth, any cry from the heart puts a break on Jesus to listen to you. And this is the problem sometimes. We do not understand the principles of aggression, and the enemy starts to multiply problems, and trouble begins to happen.
I was in a meeting many years back, and a professor came for prayers. He had invested money in business, and he was told that the ship carrying his goods had disappeared. I said to him, “Prof, you have to pray today o.” He replied phonetically, “That is right. You tell me what to do; I do it.” I then said, “Okay, sit here and begin to pray. You see that everything you have invested in is gone now; it is poverty coming. So pray: ‘Every owner of the rag of poverty, carry your load in the name of Jesus.’” He was praying phonetically. So I left him alone and faced other things.
After, like, thirty minutes, I heard a scream and a loud voice. The man became very violent in prayers. I asked, “Prof, what is the problem?” He replied, “I was praying that prayer and saw a bundle of rags in my hands, and I was praying, and then I saw an angel standing before me. As the angel was there standing, the rags suddenly became two. I then said, ‘Angel, do not just stand there looking at me. It was one bundle before. Now it is two.’ The angel looked at him in disdain and said, “If you want the rags to go, pray violently!” And that was when I heard him praying violently.
“As from the days of John the Baptist, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent taketh it by force.” Why do the violent need to take it by force? It is because the enemies of our souls are obstinate and are not ready to let anything go easily to anybody. Blind Bartimaeus cried his way with a holy cry into getting attention from Jesus.
● You shall get the attention of Jesus, in the name of Jesus.
From these scriptures we have read this morning, certain keys to getting the attention of Jesus came out. Let me run through those keys very quickly before we start praying now.
KEYS TO GETTING THE ATTENTION OF JESUS
- Make God your friend. The Bible says, “My friends are ye if you do whatever I have commanded you.” Anything God asks you not to do, do not do it.
- Find time to be alone with God, just like Brother Jacob.
- Learn operation PUSH: Pray Until Something Happens.
- Be a worshipper.
- Practise night praying like Paul and Silas. The apostles understood the power of night praying. When Peter was locked up in prison, they gathered to pray for him at night.
- Holy madness with your disturbing situation, holy dissatisfaction with it.
- Violent faith after the order of the Syrophoenician woman or the woman with the issue of blood. The Bible talks about five levels of faith:
I. No faith at all (Mark 4:40).
II. Little faith (Matthew 8:26).
III. Weak faith (Romans 4:19).
IV. Strong faith (Romans 4:20).
V. Great faith (Matthew 8:10). - Desperate prayers: When you see a desperate person praying, it is different from a regular person praying.
- Targeted fasting.
- Violent praise and worship bring the hands of God to play immediately.
- Brokenness before God, after the order of the Syrophoenician woman.
- Going out of your way to be a blessing to others, like that woman that gave the last bread and oil to Elijah, and blessings began to bombard her.
- Violent cry in prayers.
- Key into God’s promises. Are there situations confronting you? Get the promises of God relevant to those situations.
- Build up an anti-doubt barrier in your heart. Put a strong immigration officer at the door of your heart to shut out doubt.
- Change your daily vocabulary to possibility. That gets you the attention of Jesus.
- Embrace words and thoughts that emphasise that all things are possible.
- Do not be ashamed of praying in public just like blind Bartimaeus and that Syrophoenician woman. They may have laughed at them, but they got their breakthroughs.
- Learn to appeal to the compassion of God. People say, “Lord help me,” “Lord have mercy on me.”
- Turn away from all sins. The Bible says, “His ears are not heavy nor His hands shortened that He cannot save. But your sins have separated you from your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that he will not hear.”
- Believe the prophets of God. So when they give you prophetic messages, you accept them; when they ask you to take prophetic action, you take it.
These are things you take home and look at them again and again. The handwriting contrary to your life, Jesus took it and nailed it to the cross, and having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Jesus said something to his disciples. He said, “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over ALL the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
Listen carefully: there is a power that has turned great men to small men. There is a power that has turned prophets to parrots. There is a power that has no respect for your calling or riches. They are ancestral powers.
Many of us would have gone quicker and faster to achieve our destiny, but for these strange powers.
For the next few minutes, agree and see yourself in the battlefront, and break down the stronghold of Nebuchadnezzar against you. The pattern of prayer this morning is a prayer of aggression.
PRAYER POINTS.
[Before Message]
- Thou power of ancestral failure, die in the name of Jesus.
[After Message]
- Every pattern of my father’s house and of my mother’s house, contrary to my destiny, die in the name of Jesus.
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