Recorded in the Global Family 24/7 virtual prayer room in January 2023.

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Recorded at Faith Hope Love House of Prayer in Columbus, OH in April 2023.

The Presence Pioneer Podcast, hosted by Matthew Lilley, is helping you experience and host God’s presence through worship and prayer. Because God’s presence changes everything.

Free PDF Guide on David's Tabernacle ⛺

https://mailchi.mp/66cac506600c/davidstabernacle

Free E-Book - The House of Prayer & The Praying Church 🏠

https://mailchi.mp/eb5019d220d1/prayingchurch

Free PDF Guide for Worship Leaders on Spontaneous & Prophetic Worship 🎵

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Get Matthew's book, David's Tabernacle: How God's Presence Changes Everything 📚

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Watch podcast on Youtube 💻

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Recorded live at the Awaken the Dawn Leadership Summit in Columbus, OH on April 1, 2023.

The Presence Pioneer podcast exists to help you experience and host God’s presence through worship and prayer. Because God’s presence changes everything.

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Free E-Book - The House of Prayer & The Praying Church 🏠https://mailchi.mp/eb5019d220d1/prayingchurch

Free PDF Guide for Worship Leaders on Spontaneous & Prophetic Worship 🎵

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Recorded at Resurgent Church in Atlanta, GA in February 2023.

The Presence Pioneer Podcast, hosted by Matthew Lilley, is helping you experience and host God’s presence through worship and prayer. Because God’s presence changes everything.

Free PDF Guide on David's Tabernacle ⛺

https://mailchi.mp/66cac506600c/davidstabernacle

The Presence Pioneer Podcast, hosted by Matthew Lilley, is helping you experience and host God’s presence through worship and prayer. Because God’s presence changes everything.

Free E-Book - The House of Prayer & The Praying Church 🏠

https://mailchi.mp/eb5019d220d1/prayingchurch

Free PDF Guide for Worship Leaders on Spontaneous & Prophetic Worship 🎵

https://mailchi.mp/88d890568da2/sing-a-new-song-pdf

Get Matthew's book, David's Tabernacle: How God's Presence Changes Everything 📚

http://davidstabernacle.com

Watch podcast on Youtube 💻

https://www.youtube.com/@PresencePioneerPodcast

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Matthew Lilley here! I'm gently re-activating my personal podcast. As I occasionally travel to teach, I'll be releasing the recordings through the podcast.

A few things....

1. I've changed the podcast name from "Presence Pioneers" to "Presence Pioneer" (no "s" on the end of pioneer) since the focus will be on sharing my teachings, not interviews.
2. These will not be released with any regularity. If I go somewhere to teach, and they can get me the recording, then I'll share it with you.
3. The audio quality may be much more inconsistent than previous PP podcast episodes. This is because I'm uploading the raw recordings without really editing them. In previous years, we had invested a good amount of money to produce the podcast with high quality audio.
4. These will also be released on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/@PresencePioneerPodcast

The Presence Pioneer podcast exists to help you experience and host God’s presence through worship and prayer. Because God’s presence changes everything.

Free PDF Guide on David's Tabernacle ⛺

https://mailchi.mp/66cac506600c/davidstabernacle

Free E-Book - The House of Prayer & The Praying Church 🏠

https://mailchi.mp/eb5019d220d1/prayingchurch

Free PDF Guide for Worship Leaders on Spontaneous & Prophetic Worship 🎵

https://mailchi.mp/88d890568da2/sing-a-new-song-pdf

Get Matthew's book, David's Tabernacle: How God's Presence Changes Everything 📚

http://davidstabernacle.com

Support Matthew's ministry & this podcast 🎁

http://fundprayer.com

Matthew's website with free worship & prayer resources, 50+ blog posts and more 💻

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Friends of the Presence Pioneers Podcast,

I started this podcast over three years ago with a desire to teach, encourage and equip my friends who were in presence-centered prayer communities around the world. Today we released episode 100, and I am blown away by how God has used the podcast to impact people’s lives. We have averaged 400-500 downloads per episode from dozens of nations around the world.

Despite the success of the podcast, we have decided that episode 100 will be the final episode of the Presence Pioneers podcast for the foreseeable future. After prayer and fasting, my wife and I believe God is leading us to focus our ministry efforts in a few specific places in this season. Our attention will primarily be given to serving in my role with the Awaken the Dawn movement and in helping build a prayer room at our local church here in eastern North Carolina.

Please tune in to the 100th episode on your podcast app or on Youtube for more details. On episode 100 I talk with David Bradshaw, the founder of Awaken the Dawn, and we shared about a brand new podcast we are launching together! The Jesus Movement podcast, presented by ATD, will continue with the long-form conversations and interviews that I have been hosting on the Presence Pioneers podcast. We have already posted interviews with MIsty Edwards (from IHOP-KC) and Michael Miller (from Upperroom Dallas). You can follow the The Jesus Movement podcast at http://jesusmovement.awakenthedawn.com or through the ATD Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ATDMedia.

Thank you to all who have listened, watched, subscribed, prayed and shared the Presence Pioneers podcast episodes. It’s been a joy to serve you in this way, and I believe the best is yet to come!

Matthew Lilley

Presence Pioneers Podcast host

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Intercession flows from intimacy. As we lean into God, as we listen to Him, we will inevitably learn what is on His heart. There are all kinds of things we will notice and feel stirred to pray for as we do this, but Matthew believes there are specific prayer "assignments" for each of us. If we can discern what that is, we can actually experience the joy and encouragement that comes from seeing our prayers answered.

The first example of this in the Bible that Matthew discusses here is Jesus. He was fully God, but also fully man. Jesus relied on the power of the Holy Spirit to carry out His purpose on the earth. He understood that accomplishing things on earth required partnering with God. A great example would be John 17, where Jesus invites His disciples to be with Him while He prays. So what did Jesus talk to God about?

He prayed about Himself, and He prayed for His disciples - a pretty standard prayer, right? But then, He began praying for the future Church (us!), that He wouldn't ever get to preach to as a man on the Earth. Matthew believes this was an intercessory assignment from God. There are people that we won't ever get to speak to or see, but perhaps we've been invited to affect their lives in prayer, like Jesus.

Then, we'll look at Paul. In Romans 10:1, we see his main place in prayer - to see the Jewish people be saved. In his everyday life, his ministry, he is obviously called to the Gentiles, but he still carried this burden to pray for his people.

Lou Engle has said "Pay close attention to your tears, because your tears point you to your destiny." As we draw close to God and begin to let Him steer our prayers, something will grip your heart in a way that doesn't even make sense to you - that is likely the intercessory assignment in your life. It can be a justice issue, an unsaved friend or even celebrity, an entire people group, or something else. But getting close to God in prayer is the only way to find that.

If God has given you a burden to pray, it's because He wants to answer that prayer. His desire and ability to do that will create deep joy in our lives, and ripple out to change the world.

In this episode, Matthew discusses what 24-7 prayer has looked like through the ages.

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Of course, we have to start with David's Tabernacle. For 33 years of David's reign, he kept day and night worship and prayer going at the temple, and it would seem that Solomon continued that in part. After the destruction of the temple, though, you see what are essentially "revivals" breaking out within the Jewish people where some form of that worship of David's tabernacle is restored for a time.

Another instance is the first Church, waiting for the Holy Spirit in the upper room. Even after the Holy Spirit fell on them, they continued gathering at least daily to pray together. The culture they established was definitely "ongoing" worship and prayer, although it was unlikely 24-7.

Then, you have the development of monasteries and of monks, or those like the "Desert Fathers", where you see this new dedication of radically laying down your life to pursue prayer and worship. It often started as an individual who just desperately wanted more of God, not what the "mainstream" church at the time was offering, and grew into these groups. It was these types of groups that established 24-7 prayer and singing for a time. Amazingly, they often sang the psalms, which were the songs written in David's tabernacle!

From there, you get to the Moravians. In the 1700's, in Herenhut, Germany, a commune put together by Ludwig van Zinzendorf was experiencing some infighting. Zinzendorf prayed for peace, and one night while they took communion, the Holy Spirit broke in. They began 24-7 prayer and worship based on Moses, saying the fire on the altar must not go out. They took one hour shifts and carried it on for 100 years! They sent out many missionaries, and most believe that this is the roots of the modern missions movement.

So what's happening now is unprecedented in scale, but not in activity. God has had little pockets of people praying day and night all throughout history, and it often births missions. We're moving now into His grand vision, a more global movement of day and night worship and prayer that everyone is invited to!

LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE

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Episode 4 • https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-global-prayer-movement-this-has-never-happened/id1450541029?i=1000430629937

Episode 62 • https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/four-models-of-24-7-prayer-that-went-viral-episode-62/id1450541029?i=1000509670674

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None of the verses we discuss today will be really new to anyone following this podcast, but in this talk Matthew wants to tie them together to show "the plan" God has that we are a part of. There's a bigger storyline going on here!

Promise 1 - God's house will be a house of prayer.

Isaiah 56:7 is where God says His house will be a house of prayer to all the nations, and this is the verse Jesus quotes in Matthew 21:13. Matthew compares this house of prayer to IHOP, the International House of Pancakes. If you go to IHOP, you can get pancakes. They sell other things, but pancakes are their specialty. Similarly, God's house should have prayer as its specialty!

Promise 2 - Worship and prayer will be everywhere.

Malachi 1:11 and Isaiah 42 both describe worship and prayer "in every place" or "to the ends of the Earth". (Incense represents prayer in the Bible in many places.) It's unclear what the boundary lines are exactly of "every place", but it indicates that basically no matter where you go, prayer and worship are going up.

Promise 3 - This worship and prayer will be day and night.

Isaiah 62:6-7 and Luke 18 both point towards the unceasing prayer and worship. Before Jesus returns, there will be worship and prayer happening not only in every place, but all the time.

Could what we're seeing now in the prayer movement be connected to these verses? God is inviting us all to be part of His promises to the Earth. We essentially have a "blank check" to worship and pray together whenever, wherever - so if this has been stirring in your heart, here's your sign - just start!

In this quick teaching, Matthew goes through what it means to communicate with God, and also 4 ways to know you're hearing Him.

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When you pray, one of the first things to understand is that it's not just one way. Part of communicating with anyone, including God, is listening. That can be hard to discern sometimes in prayer, so Matthew lays out 4 ways that God can speak to us to help you listen for Him.

1 - Through the Bible.

Every word in the Bible is truth, so God will never speak anything to you that contradicts it. Therefore, a solid understanding of His Word helps you to recognize His voice. Often, He will speak while we are reading the Bible, either by highlighting a verse to us or giving us a new revelation about something we've read before.

2 - Through an Impression.

Some people do have encounters where they hear the audible voice of God, but more often it's the Holy Spirit inside of us that "has a thought". Especially if you're in His presence - praying, worshipping, at church, etc - if a sudden thought or feeling comes to you, that doesn't contradict scripture, that's probably God! This one is easy to miss.

3 - Through Wise Counsel.

Sometimes, God will use people close to us - a pastor, a mentor, a parent, a spouse, a friend - to speak to us. Acts 15 is a great example of God getting His point across through people communicating - and the final consensus was simply "it seems good to us in the Holy Spirit". We don't always get a billboard in black and white - sometimes it's simply hearing from someone we trust to be wise and feeling peace about it in our own spirit.

4 - Through Dreams and Visions.

God consistently spoke throughout the Bible in this way. For some people, this is a very dramatic encounter - an "out of body experience". More often, it's a dream that stands out to you, or an image that comes to mind while you're praying. As always, you must hold anything like this up to scripture and be sure it's in line, but if it is, pray about what you saw - God is probably trying to get your attention!

The main point here is that God came to us to create a relationship. In order for us to really be a part of that relationship, we need to know His voice - because He's already speaking.