(299) “Strategies for Defeating Your Enemy” (Part 2)

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As we flow with the Holy Spirit, he will pray

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through us. He will praise through us and fill

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the atmosphere with the glory of God that makes

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the devil run. Yes. God promises in Joel 2 .28

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to pour his spirit out on all humanity. Welcome

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to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that

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promised outpouring, we equip for that outpouring,

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so that we may engage in that very outpouring.

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I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome

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to the podcast today. We are looking forward

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to spending this time with you to talk about

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strategies for defeating your enemy. And this

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is part two, and we're going to talk about travailing

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it. So today we're going to continue with our

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study about how to defeat your enemy. There's

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lots of strategies. God has battle plans for

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every single battle. And so last time we talked

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about fasting and we talked about when Jesus

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appeared to his disciples after his resurrection

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and he gave several, we looked at them as steps.

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And the last step was about remitting sins and

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about forgiving. And that's a kind of intercession.

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And our founder, Gwen Shaw, was... Just an amazing

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woman of God. And she was commissioned by the

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Lord to write a Bible study about travailing

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intercession. And when I say travail, I mean

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like being in birth, having birth pangs. I remember

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the first time that I experienced that. The Holy

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Spirit just came over me. It was at an end -time

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handmaidens gathering. It was a small gathering.

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It was like a little regional thing before we

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started having regional things. And I didn't

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know what it was. But I found myself weeping.

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I found myself groaning. I was filled with the

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Holy Spirit. How old were you then? I'm thinking

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I was 18. Okay. I think I was 18. And I think

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I had just graduated from high school. And God

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had already spoken to me about He wanted me 100

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% and He wanted me right now. And so I was pursuing

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the Lord and pursuing the leading that was coming

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to me day by day. And this first time, it was

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like I had no idea what this was. I'd never seen

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it before. I'd never seen it modeled. I'd never

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heard about it. But here I was, travailing. Sister

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Gwen assured me that it was the Holy Spirit,

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and I was really glad to know that. But then

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that was in 1976. That would have been in the

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summer of 76, I don't know, June, July, sometime

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around that time. And then in November of 1976,

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here... at headquarters, and I was off at language

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school by that time. So I wasn't involved in

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this, but it's in this book that she wrote called

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Pour Out Your Heart. It's a Bible study on intercessory

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travailing prayer. And she got this word from

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the Lord, and it opens the book, right? It says,

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from the throne room. So I just want to read

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it to you to give you a sense of what this book

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is about. And you can find it on our website.

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And it's going to be life -changing for you.

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If you're an intercessor, maybe you're into praying,

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but maybe you haven't experienced travail. And

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there's something about travail that is more

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so. Okay? It'll help you to pray through. It's

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not my everyday prayer. But sometimes it comes

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over me. And when it does, you know, you just

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got to yield to it. So here's the word of the

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Lord. The time has come to weep, my daughters.

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I have broken your hearts that you may know my

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broken heart. I have given you pain that you

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may feel my pain. Yes, I have even allowed thy

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house to lie in ruins that you may see how my

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heart is grieved to see my house in ruins. I

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have permitted an imposter to build his house

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of blasphemy in the holy place, so that you can

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feel my grief and agony at the sight of the abomination

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of desolation which stands in the holy place.

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My daughters, my sons, your tears shall be the

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beginning of travail. For the time has come for

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Zion's daughters to bring forth her sons and

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daughters, and only through pain and travail

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can they be birthed and given life. You have

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been taught by your teachers to rejoice, to laugh,

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and to play. But now the Spirit of God shall

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come upon you, even the Spirit of Jeremiah, and

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you shall travail for the house of Israel and

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for the tribes who lie dispersed. This is parentheses.

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When this was written, it was still quite early

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in Israel's history. You know, it was right after

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the Yom Kippur War. This was 76. Come to Israel

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since then. Back to the word. It is time to call

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them. Only the Spirit can do that, for they are

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beyond the reach of mortal voice. But my Spirit

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knoweth where they are, and he shall begin to

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work in end -time power and might as you travail,

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and the princes of darkness shall yield up their

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captives and surrender their prey. And my sons

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and daughters shall come from afar, and they

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shall know their God, for they shall have been

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given a revelation of him in his glory. Gentile

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daughters, stir thy hearts, enter thy chambers,

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and seek my face, that the daughters of Jerusalem

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may know their king. Yea, my spirit calleth my

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daughters and sons to return to the prayer closet,

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to even travail and agonize in the agony of birth

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for the redemption of a people. For how can even

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a remnant be saved in the time of wrath if my

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people who know me will not agonize in prayer

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and travail in the Spirit? This is not a work

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of the flesh, and it is not a grievous thing.

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It is glorious. And even though you be weeping,

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thy soul shall be at rest, for it is the tears

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of the Lord that thine eyes shall weep, and thy

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own wounds shall be healed if thou wilt bear

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the wounds of the body of Christ. This world

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waiteth for the daughters of Zion to storm the

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heavens. You have been taught by your teachers

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to laugh and sing and clap your hands and dance

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and skip for joy, and you have been obedient

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children. But now I say unto thee that the time

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to play has passed with the passing of time,

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and you have grown into womanhood. You have been

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given the token of womanhood, blood. Yes, even

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from the very core of your being has this blood

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flowed and now the hour of conception has come

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and you must be sober and vigilant and prepare

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for the hour of delivery. Yea, I call you to

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be mature, and to be wise with all sobriety,

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and to make ready for the hour of delivery for

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pains. Even the pains of childbirth shall come

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upon thee, and thou shalt have children. Yea,

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even the desolate shall bring forth children.

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Even the woman who knew not how to pray, and

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who was spiritually barren, shall too travail

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in the Spirit, and bear spiritual children. For

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the time has come. Therefore I counsel you, my

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daughter, who knoweth the way of his Spirit,

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teach thy sisters who are new in the way that

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they may be prepared for the hour that has come

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upon them. For my call has gone out through the

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land, and my daughters are hearing the call to

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intercession. Rise up and teach them that they

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may understand. Yea, and the Lord would say to

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thee, As thou dost come and weep and travail,

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Even at the great wall of weeping, thine eyes

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shall see the glory of the Lord. For even as

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thou hast stood at the weeping wall of Jerusalem

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in the city of the great king, so I am building

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a wall that eyes cannot see. This wall shall

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reach around the world. It shall go through America.

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It shall go even to the southern tip of Argentina.

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It shall reach around the world and my daughters

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themselves shall build this weeping wall and

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shall weep at this wall and they shall offer

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their requests at this wall and they shall shed

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their tears at this wall and I will send the

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Holy Spirit to rest over them and the Holy Spirit

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shall bear their prayers before the throne and

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take their answers to the Lord God Almighty and

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the Lord God. shall put within the hearts of

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the daughters of Israel the mind of the Spirit,

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and they shall weep in the Spirit, and these

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prayers shall be answered, saith the Lord. Thou

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shalt now pray through, for I will give you power

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to pray through, and thou shalt see the answers

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of thy prayers tomorrow. Yea, even until the

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tomorrow of the tomorrows, thou shalt see the

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results of thy travailing prayers, saith the

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Lord, for thy tears shall not be in vain, neither

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has thy cry come up to a deaf God. I have seen,

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and I have heard, and thy prayers shall be answered

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by the throne of God. Thus saith the Lord to

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his daughters and sons, who have travailed and

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have prevailed in the Spirit. Amen. That's a

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powerful word. It's a powerful word. That was

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in 76. And Sister Gwen learned that type of prayer.

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Being on the mission field like she was, it wasn't

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like you could take your cell phone and text

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home and say, I need prayer. Absolutely. She

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was kind of a lot like Paul when he went out

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after he had his visitation. He had to find God

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for himself. Absolutely. That's the way it was

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with our founder. She learned to press into God

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through intercession, through prayer, through

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fasting and praising. And so what she writes

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in these books are life changers. Absolutely.

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Some of these books that have been printed many

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times in different languages. True. We have this

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book in Spanish and French. Russian. I think

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we have it in Russian. I think we have it in

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Italian too. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm not sure if

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there's any others, but these are significant

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teachings, and we won't go into all these details.

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I'm not going to try and teach this book on this

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podcast, but I feel like I wanted to introduce

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it to you so that as we do talk about travail

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and weeping and that kind of prayer, that if

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you are resonating with this, and you haven't

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gotten this book, we really encourage you to

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get it. We also have it on our website as a PDF

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so that you can just download it and read it

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immediately. So that's also an option. She tells

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some stories in this book about, like you said,

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being on the mission field. There was a time

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in, I want to say it was in 1976, I think it

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was right before this word was given, that she

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and a team were about to smuggle a whole load

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of Bibles. I think they were going across the

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border into the Ukraine from Moldova. I think

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that's where they were. And they were on their

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way to Russia. And this is communist. Oh, yeah.

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This is Cold War going on. This is Iron Curtain

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countries. It was an Iron Curtain. Yeah. Natural

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and spiritual. Yeah. It was very, very, very

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strong and very anti -Christ. Anti -Bible, anti

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-missionaries, anti -anti -anti -everything of

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the West. And they had met many of the people

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behind the Iron Curtain who were serving the

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Lord in faithfulness regardless of the persecution.

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And they told stories about the persecution.

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And that's really what hooked me into even following

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these people because I wanted to be a Bible smuggler.

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I thought, oh, that sounds like something I want

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to do. And I didn't want to. No, you didn't.

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But anyway, that's not the point of the story.

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But there was one particular situation, and you

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read about it in the Chicago Sun -Times, where

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somebody found out about this and tipped them

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off. That's the only way that it could have happened

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because they hid the Bibles in their vehicle

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in secret compartments. And, you know, only somebody

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who knew to look for them there would have found

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them. So somebody tipped them off and they were

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arrested and they were in a jail cell. And I

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think they had one toothbrush among them and

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they all shared it. But they, you know, they

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were flowing with the Holy Spirit and they were.

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praising God in spite of their situation and

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trying to maintain the presence of the Lord.

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But they couldn't pray for themselves, really.

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And they asked God in that moment, send the word

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to the intercessors. Let the intercessors wake

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up and pray for us. And they got word later from

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all over the world of different people that God

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spoke to. you know, even gave them visions of

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Sister Gwen and her team being in jail. And they

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were. And so these people got on their knees

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in that moment and travailed and prayed and prayed

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and prayed. And this idea of praying through,

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it's kind of like a principle of the Holy Spirit

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that you know when... your prayer has been...

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When you got the breakthrough. And when you've

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gotten a breakthrough, you know that the thing

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you're asking for has been accomplished in the

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Spirit, even though you don't see it in the natural.

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The thing that you have prayed for, there's something

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inside of you that knows. And of course, it's

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the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit knows when He

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has gotten through, through you. And you know,

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you know that you know. And so all of these intercessors

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all over the world, were praying for them. And

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she had story after story of how she would pray

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for people, or others would pray for her. And

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you have to pray in the moment that you get the

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burden to pray. Yeah, because that's the time

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something's going on. Yeah. And it's not on your

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time zone. Right. Very well could be in somebody

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else's time zone. I remember other people that

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have talked about how the Lord would wake them

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up in the night. and say, please, I need you

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to pray for so -and -so, such -and -such. And,

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you know, you have to stir yourself to get up

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and pray. It's an assignment, and it's a privilege.

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It's a privilege from the Lord to be used by

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Him, because what you're doing is you are partnering

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with the Holy Spirit. And as I was preparing

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for this episode, I was reminded of Romans 8.

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In verse 19, it says, for the earnest expectation

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of the creature or the creation waits for the

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manifestation of the sons of God. And that word

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sons is the word yos in Greek, and it means a

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mature son. It's a son that is part of the family

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business, you know, not a child, not a teen,

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but a mature son. So the whole creation is waiting.

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for this manifestation and revelation of these

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sons of God who have grown up in the things of

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God, walking in the spirit and not in the flesh,

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okay? So, verse 20, it says, for the creation

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was made subject to, King James says, vanity,

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but, you know, it's talking about emptiness,

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not willingly, but by reason of him who subjected

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the same, and hope. You know, the whole creation

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broke when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the

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tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It wasn't

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just that they were going to die now. It says,

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if you eat of that fruit, you will surely die.

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But in the Hebrew, it says, dying you shall die.

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So the dying process began for them, and it affected

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all of the earth. Everything began to die. You

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know, I don't think there was a plan for trees

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to die. But now they die. Yeah, I remember when

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Dean came back from heaven, he says the earth

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smells of death. Yeah. Because everything is

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eventually going to die. Right, right. I thought,

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oh, wow, that's another perspective. Yeah. We

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don't think about that. We don't realize it because

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we're used to it. But, you know, this is saying

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that the creation, and verse 21 says, The original

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creation of the creature itself also shall be

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delivered from the bondage of corruption or decay

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into the glorious liberty of the children of

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God. For we know that the whole creation groans

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and travails in pain together until now. You

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know, think of if you're out in Africa in the

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jungle or on the Serengeti and you hear the roar

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of a lion that's hungry. There's no hunger in

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heaven like this that makes you roar and go,

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I'm hungry. Your stomach's growling or whatever.

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The baby crying because she's hungry. There can

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be a pain with hunger. Look at all the starving

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children around the world. Starving in agony

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because they're so hungry. And all of creation

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is groaning. in pain until now. And not only

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they, but ourselves also, which have the first

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fruits of the Spirit. Okay, the first fruits

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of the Spirit is this outpouring that came at

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Pentecost as a first fruits offering. We just

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have the beginnings. And the more we work with

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the Holy Spirit, the more we walk with the Holy

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Spirit, the more mature we are becoming in the

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Spirit, right? Even the first fruits of the Spirit,

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even the beginning of our walking in the Spirit,

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even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting,

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eagerly waiting for the adoption that is the

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redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope,

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but hope that is seen is not hope. For what a

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man sees, why is he still hoping? But if we hope

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for that which we see not, Then do we with patience

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wait for it. Likewise, verse 26, likewise the

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Spirit also helps our infirmities, our weaknesses.

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For we know not what we should pray for as we

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ought. How many times do we know not what to

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pray? It's pretty often. But the Spirit itself

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makes intercession for us with groanings which

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cannot be uttered. In other words, these groanings,

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these pains of childbirth that come on us by

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the Spirit. It's a Spirit thing. You can't just

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do it on your own. I mean, I suppose you could,

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but I don't know that you get very far with it.

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But when the Holy Spirit is moving on you and

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putting you into this... into this narrow place

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like childbirth. You know, childbirth is a thing.

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And women who have birthed a child can tell you

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it's a thing. There's travail. I was just listening

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to Rick Ridings today on a YouTube video where

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he talks about the prayer that we need right

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now for what's going on in the Middle East. And

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he was talking about how when his wife was in

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labor with one of their children, the child was

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breech. So mama had to work extra hard. And the

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labor was very, very difficult. And it was so

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difficult that the capillaries in her face, you

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know, that's the tiny, tiny blood vessels, the

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capillaries in her face began to... pop and show

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these red marks on her face. And the doctor said

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that if she had continued much longer, those

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would have popped out of the skin and she would

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have been like sweating drops of blood like Jesus

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did in Gethsemane. Okay, that is travail. Okay,

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she was in literal childbirth and pressing in

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in that kind of way. So that's what Jesus was

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doing in the Garden of Gethsemane. He was travailing

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for us. He was doing a kind of intercession for

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us. He wasn't just struggling against, I don't

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want to go through this. He was actually beginning

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to bear the burden of sin upon himself. And so

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there was a travail that was going on in his

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prayer in Gethsemane. So just to finish this

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scripture here in Romans 8. I'll just read 26

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again. Likewise, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses,

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our infirmities. For we know not what we should

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pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself makes

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intercession for us with groanings which cannot

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be uttered. And he that searches the hearts.

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knows what is the mind of the Spirit because

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he makes intercession for the saints according

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to the will of God or according to God. And then

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it goes into that one verse that we so often

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quote out of context. And we know that all things

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work together for good to them that love God,

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to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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But then the next verse. Yes. And for whom he

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did foreknow. He also did predestinate to be

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conformed to the image of his Son, that he might

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be the firstborn among many brethren. So this

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travail that goes on in the Spirit, this groaning

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in the Spirit, this intercession in the Spirit,

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that comes because the Holy Spirit knows what

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needs to be prayed. He knows our Father's heart,

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and he knows our needs. He knows our weaknesses.

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He knows that we... don't know how to get over

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these things. Some of these things that we're

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trying to overcome, we are looking at strategies

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for defeating our enemy, aligning with the Holy

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Spirit in prayer, aligning with him in travail,

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aligning with him and letting him travail through

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us to intercede through us to go deeper than

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we've ever gone before. I remember one time one

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of our teachers in our Bible school was travailing.

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in one of our services getting ready to, somebody

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was going to teach that night. I don't remember

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just who, but she began to travail. And she was

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travailing so hard that she was praying inside

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her head, you know, God, please send somebody

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to help me. And I just felt led of the Lord to

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go and take hold of her feet and begin to travail

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with her and help her to carry that burden. If

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I'm not mistaken, that was the night that we

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had a fire that destroyed our whole office building.

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Wow. And we didn't know what we were travailing

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for. We didn't know. We didn't know that sometimes

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there would be somebody sleeping in the building.

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And that night, no one was sleeping in the building.

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Glory to God. Sure. It was devastating. It was

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a terrible, devastating fire. But the travail

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that came by the Spirit was helping to prepare

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us in the Spirit for all things working together

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for good. And to help us to get into that place

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of predestination. Don't think of it as predestination

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like you have been destined for a certain thing.

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Read it in context. We are predestinated to be

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conformed to the image of his son. He's designed

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us to become like him. He's designed us to walk

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with him. And just like Jesus walked with the

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father and did whatever he saw the father doing.

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And saying whatever he heard the Father saying

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and nothing else. That's the hard part. The hard

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part is not putting in our own two cents worth.

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But he's predestinated us to be just like Jesus.

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And it requires the working of the Holy Spirit

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in us and through us to help us get there and

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to help us pray through for others because we

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need each other. Yes. And we need to be able

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to walk with the Holy Spirit to help us walking

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in these things. So, you know, you just have

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to align yourself with the Holy Spirit because

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when He says to pray, when He begins to burden

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you to pray, you just have to stop what you're

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doing. You know, in our office, we have a prayer

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room. that was designed so that if the Holy Spirit

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came over us at some point, we could leave our

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offices and go there to pray without having to

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go someplace else. It's a location so that we

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can pray when it's time to pray. And you do that

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by the leading of the Holy Spirit. So sometimes

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we're called to weep. And sometimes... We're

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called to laugh. And sometimes we're called to

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praise. So Sister Gwen wrote another book called

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The Power of Praise. And what's so unique about

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her books, they're Bible studies. Yes. And they're

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not big. Most of these are not big. Cuts to the

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point. And they're also designed to... Do as

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a group or by yourself. Yeah, and she puts her

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life experiences in this. Yeah, so good. Because

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this is what she learned. She didn't get it out

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of somebody else's book. That's true. She lived

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it. Absolutely. But, you know, even in praise,

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you know, we kind of have a pattern. And you

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go to a church. Have one praise song, maybe,

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or a couple, and then go into worship. One fast

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one. One fast one, you know, and have a happy,

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clappy one or something. And, you know, that

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just depends where they're at, where people are

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at. But there's times you can, you know, like

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if there's prayer or something going on ahead

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of time, you can just start right in worship

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because the atmosphere is there for it. But praise

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is a breakthrough. Amen. Praise is breakthrough.

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And even, you know, when you're going through

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things, you know, it's praise is one thing that

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just that can lift you up and just take you where

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you need to go and get you out of where you've

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been. I forget where it is in the scripture.

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It's like, you know, get yourself out of the

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pit. You put yourself in. Right. And that is

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really one way to do it. Absolutely. Because

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when you praise, praise can just lead into worship.

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And that's then the glory just comes. So praise

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can issue you. Into the glory. Yes. And you can

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do it in your car. Yes. We have all these CDs

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we used to get. We don't even listen to them

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anymore a lot of the time. That's true. Because

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we're always doing things in the car. We can

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be praying or on the way to church, we're just

00:29:44.930 --> 00:29:47.490
worshiping. Yeah, we have an older car that has

00:29:47.490 --> 00:29:48.509
a CD player. We have an older car that has a

00:29:48.509 --> 00:29:52.890
CD player in it. We don't have a new style yet

00:29:52.890 --> 00:29:58.500
anyway. Praise can also... It destroys the power

00:29:58.500 --> 00:30:01.000
of fear. True. Because many times when you're

00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:04.740
going through something, or you're put into a

00:30:04.740 --> 00:30:07.880
circumstance, and all of a sudden you're finding

00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:10.799
it's just very fearful. And it's just, how do

00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:17.019
I get out of this? Psalm 47, this is a psalm

00:30:17.019 --> 00:30:20.039
for the sons of Korah. Oh, clap your hands, all

00:30:20.039 --> 00:30:22.799
ye people. Yes. Shout unto God with a voice of

00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:25.559
triumph. For the Lord Most High is terrible.

00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:29.000
He is a great king over all the earth. He shall

00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:32.059
subdue the people under us and the nations under

00:30:32.059 --> 00:30:35.039
our feet. Amen. He shall choose our inheritance

00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:38.400
for us, the excellency of Jacob, whom he loved.

00:30:38.920 --> 00:30:42.779
Selah. So think about it. God has gone up with

00:30:42.779 --> 00:30:45.819
the shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.

00:30:46.220 --> 00:30:49.660
Sing praises to God. Sing praises. Sing praises

00:30:49.660 --> 00:30:54.220
unto our king. Sing praises. For God is the king

00:30:54.220 --> 00:30:57.180
of all the earth. Sing ye praises with understanding.

00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:00.720
God reigneth over the heathen. God sitteth upon

00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.980
the throne of his holiness. The princes of the

00:31:03.980 --> 00:31:06.380
people are gathered together, even the people

00:31:06.380 --> 00:31:09.539
of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the

00:31:09.539 --> 00:31:13.430
earth belong unto God. He is greatly exalted.

00:31:13.609 --> 00:31:16.109
Amen. And there's excitement in praise, and that

00:31:16.109 --> 00:31:19.190
was one of the things that was established in

00:31:19.190 --> 00:31:22.490
the tabernacle of David was praise. Yes. He had

00:31:22.490 --> 00:31:26.470
thousands of singers and worshipers, and praise

00:31:26.470 --> 00:31:28.670
would just go up continually. He had the morning

00:31:28.670 --> 00:31:31.730
sacrifice, the afternoon, the evening sacrifice,

00:31:31.869 --> 00:31:35.450
because he learned how to praise when he was

00:31:35.450 --> 00:31:38.829
watching sheep. Right. So David is a shepherd

00:31:38.829 --> 00:31:41.869
over these sheep. And even in the scripture,

00:31:42.029 --> 00:31:44.170
you know, it says where, you know, he slew a

00:31:44.170 --> 00:31:49.109
lion, he slew a bear. Yeah. And it was with a

00:31:49.109 --> 00:31:52.230
slingshot. Very well. There was sling, not a

00:31:52.230 --> 00:31:54.670
slingshot. A slingshot is this little thing where

00:31:54.670 --> 00:31:57.509
you can put a little pellet in it or rock and

00:31:57.509 --> 00:32:01.730
pull back on it. You know, but a sling is something

00:32:01.730 --> 00:32:04.589
that, you know, you put it in the cloth and you

00:32:04.589 --> 00:32:07.450
swing it over your head. And we've seen that.

00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:10.140
They can get long, up to five, six foot long.

00:32:10.460 --> 00:32:13.059
And when that is released, it sounds like a shotgun,

00:32:13.180 --> 00:32:16.180
like a snap. And they used to hunt like that.

00:32:16.259 --> 00:32:18.640
That was a way to hunt. So David had plenty of

00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:21.460
time to practice. Yes, he did. And he slew Goliath.

00:32:21.579 --> 00:32:25.299
Right. And cut off his head. Right. But he learned

00:32:25.299 --> 00:32:27.680
how to praise. Yes. He learned how to praise

00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:31.539
on his little. nine string or however many string

00:32:31.539 --> 00:32:34.299
harp that he had. And he just learned how to

00:32:34.299 --> 00:32:37.200
worship. And when you read the Psalms, you can

00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:39.460
understand, you can see that, you know, you can

00:32:39.460 --> 00:32:42.980
see his heart. He had a heart of worship. He

00:32:42.980 --> 00:32:47.059
had a heart of worship. Just an amazing. He must

00:32:47.059 --> 00:32:49.720
have understood the principle of love the Lord

00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:52.039
your God with all your heart, with all your soul,

00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:53.839
with all your mind, with all your strength. He

00:32:53.839 --> 00:32:56.000
must have had that revelation because he was.

00:32:56.680 --> 00:32:58.619
That was part of his qualifications for becoming

00:32:58.619 --> 00:33:00.980
king, was being a shepherd first, taking care

00:33:00.980 --> 00:33:02.380
of sheep, because now you're going to have to

00:33:02.380 --> 00:33:04.880
take care of people. Yeah. And people can be

00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:08.880
just as ignorant as sheep. That's true. You know,

00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:12.440
in 1 Samuel chapter 16, you know, this is when

00:33:12.440 --> 00:33:16.839
Saul was made king, but then he's not following

00:33:16.839 --> 00:33:19.440
the commandments of the Lord. You know, in the

00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:21.660
scripture it says there, you know, that like

00:33:21.660 --> 00:33:24.930
an evil spirit from the Lord. I think if you

00:33:24.930 --> 00:33:26.609
probably read that through the Hebrew, it was

00:33:26.609 --> 00:33:30.029
the Lord allowed this to happen to him. And so

00:33:30.029 --> 00:33:35.609
Saul is in a bad mood, and all of a sudden one

00:33:35.609 --> 00:33:38.410
of them pipes up. I know a shepherd boy that

00:33:38.410 --> 00:33:42.529
plays cunning on the harp, and he's just a real

00:33:42.529 --> 00:33:45.869
minstrel. And he says, go get him for me. So

00:33:45.869 --> 00:33:49.529
Saul goes and gets David. And so David plays

00:33:49.529 --> 00:33:53.190
on his harp. And we don't know how long. We don't

00:33:53.190 --> 00:33:55.289
know exactly how everything, what it sounded

00:33:55.289 --> 00:33:58.210
like. But it says the evil spirit that was upon

00:33:58.210 --> 00:34:02.250
Saul would leave, and he was refreshed. It's

00:34:02.250 --> 00:34:05.390
because David had the anointing. He had the anointing.

00:34:05.690 --> 00:34:08.809
See, when Saul was anointed, he was anointed

00:34:08.809 --> 00:34:12.090
with a vial of oil. Samuel anointed with a vial

00:34:12.090 --> 00:34:16.829
of oil. When David was anointed, because... The

00:34:16.829 --> 00:34:20.769
king was the people's idea, not God's. See, it

00:34:20.769 --> 00:34:24.050
was not God's idea. The people said, we want

00:34:24.050 --> 00:34:27.210
a king to reign over us. And Samuel said, this

00:34:27.210 --> 00:34:29.449
is what he's going to do to you. When he's your

00:34:29.449 --> 00:34:32.329
king, he's going to make your servants to fight

00:34:32.329 --> 00:34:34.349
his battles. He's going to make your handmaidens

00:34:34.349 --> 00:34:36.909
his maids, his concubines, all these things.

00:34:37.590 --> 00:34:41.110
But no, we want a king to reign over us. So they

00:34:41.110 --> 00:34:44.059
had a king over them. But David was anointed

00:34:44.059 --> 00:34:46.719
with a horn of oil. And if you look those up

00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:50.219
in the Hebrew, they're different. I mean, a horn's

00:34:50.219 --> 00:34:52.400
a little bit bigger. It's bigger than a vial.

00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:56.119
And so he anointed David with oil in the midst

00:34:56.119 --> 00:34:59.019
of all his brethren, and in his humbleness goes

00:34:59.019 --> 00:35:02.619
back to his sheep. So that was the secret of

00:35:02.619 --> 00:35:06.019
David, was a heart after God in worship. Right.

00:35:07.260 --> 00:35:09.840
You could just worship the Lord, but you have

00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:13.619
to want to do it. I remember a story. It was

00:35:13.619 --> 00:35:18.500
Terry Law when he lost his wife, and he was grieving

00:35:18.500 --> 00:35:21.420
extremely. He was a worship leader, and one of

00:35:21.420 --> 00:35:24.239
the worst things that can happen is to lose your

00:35:24.239 --> 00:35:28.239
spouse. You've lost the joy that you've had with

00:35:28.239 --> 00:35:31.800
all these years, and it's easy to go into a depression

00:35:31.800 --> 00:35:35.099
over something like that. And he was in front

00:35:35.099 --> 00:35:38.079
of Oral Roberts, I think it was, and Oral pointed

00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:40.659
his finger at him. It reminds me of Sister Gwen.

00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:42.760
Yeah, she would do that. She'd take that bony

00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:46.039
prophetic finger and point it at you. You know,

00:35:46.059 --> 00:35:49.380
you knew it was the word of the Lord. And Oral

00:35:49.380 --> 00:35:51.940
Roberts said to him, you have to get over this.

00:35:52.219 --> 00:35:54.099
You're the one that has to make the decision.

00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:58.130
And he just got home. And he just started trying

00:35:58.130 --> 00:36:00.530
to praise. Thank you, Jesus. Praise you, Lord.

00:36:00.670 --> 00:36:02.389
And he could just, like he's hearing the devil

00:36:02.389 --> 00:36:05.329
mock him. And now he just starts praying in tongues.

00:36:05.429 --> 00:36:07.710
And all of a sudden, he got his breakthrough.

00:36:08.289 --> 00:36:11.869
And he just started praising God. And the depression

00:36:11.869 --> 00:36:15.550
lifted. And it was just days after that when

00:36:15.550 --> 00:36:19.250
God gave him the start of what would be. another

00:36:19.250 --> 00:36:22.130
spouse for him that would be for the next phase

00:36:22.130 --> 00:36:26.349
of his life. But he had to choose to break through.

00:36:26.570 --> 00:36:29.409
And we have to choose. When we go through situations,

00:36:29.510 --> 00:36:31.989
we're being tempted. Now, if we're being tempted

00:36:31.989 --> 00:36:34.269
with something, maybe on YouTube or something

00:36:34.269 --> 00:36:36.789
like that, it's just that's the time you have

00:36:36.789 --> 00:36:38.730
to choose to praise. You have to break through.

00:36:38.769 --> 00:36:42.449
Pray in tongues. Once you start praying in tongues,

00:36:42.530 --> 00:36:45.389
that thing will leave you. But you have to choose

00:36:45.389 --> 00:36:48.590
to want to do it. Yes. Can I insert something

00:36:48.590 --> 00:36:50.210
here? Yeah, go right ahead. Because I think it

00:36:50.210 --> 00:36:52.949
fits in this place that's kind of along the same

00:36:52.949 --> 00:36:57.269
lines. Philip's brother, Scott, who was an amazing

00:36:57.269 --> 00:37:01.010
violinist, and his wife, Carolyn, they had a

00:37:01.010 --> 00:37:04.269
school called the Institute of Music, Worship,

00:37:04.329 --> 00:37:07.429
and the Arts, and they were teaching excellence

00:37:07.429 --> 00:37:11.030
in music but in worship, you know, trying to

00:37:11.030 --> 00:37:14.510
develop. musicians, ministering to kids, helping

00:37:14.510 --> 00:37:16.989
them to grow in their musical skills so that

00:37:16.989 --> 00:37:19.590
they could be good worshipers. Anyway, Carolyn

00:37:19.590 --> 00:37:22.190
passed away about a year and a half ago, and

00:37:22.190 --> 00:37:27.469
Scott just passed away about three weeks ago.

00:37:28.070 --> 00:37:30.809
And it was a shock because Scott was the picture

00:37:30.809 --> 00:37:34.329
of health. And we were absolutely shocked. We

00:37:34.329 --> 00:37:37.420
didn't really think that he would. not want to

00:37:37.420 --> 00:37:40.219
fight for his life. It's not that he gave up,

00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:42.880
but he just felt like he was done fighting. And

00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:45.619
he wanted to go to be with the Lord. So two days

00:37:45.619 --> 00:37:48.980
after he passed, the Lord spoke to me in my journal.

00:37:49.539 --> 00:37:53.019
And here's what I got. The Lord said, you have

00:37:53.019 --> 00:37:55.699
been moved by Bill Johnson's words when his wife,

00:37:55.800 --> 00:37:58.460
Benny, passed into my presence. I will never

00:37:58.460 --> 00:38:01.039
have, this is what Bill Johnson spoke, I will

00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:03.679
never have another opportunity to rejoice in

00:38:03.679 --> 00:38:06.699
this depth of loss like I do now. and I will

00:38:06.699 --> 00:38:10.059
choose to rejoice, end quote. So then the Lord

00:38:10.059 --> 00:38:13.639
said, I will grace you to rejoice in this time

00:38:13.639 --> 00:38:15.980
of shock, grief, and sorrow over the loss of

00:38:15.980 --> 00:38:19.239
Scott Buss in this realm. He is greatly rejoicing

00:38:19.239 --> 00:38:22.079
in my presence with Carolyn, Dorothy Estill,

00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:24.440
which is their Phillips parents, Scott's parents,

00:38:24.539 --> 00:38:29.039
and all his generations. The thing that keeps

00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:33.699
you connected is me, my presence. My face, glowing

00:38:33.699 --> 00:38:36.840
in love for you as though you are my only creation,

00:38:37.139 --> 00:38:40.320
connects you in the spirit realm to all my creation,

00:38:40.420 --> 00:38:42.860
both in heaven and on earth, for I love each

00:38:42.860 --> 00:38:47.039
one the same. My presence, my love is your life

00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:49.989
-giving oxygen. I created earth's atmosphere

00:38:49.989 --> 00:38:52.550
to carry my love to you and to all creation.

00:38:52.829 --> 00:38:56.809
You can enhance my presence and love by your

00:38:56.809 --> 00:39:00.909
praise, thanks, and worship to the end that will

00:39:00.909 --> 00:39:03.789
bring me into focus for people who have been

00:39:03.789 --> 00:39:06.750
in the fog of deception, pride, selfishness,

00:39:06.769 --> 00:39:10.170
and iniquity. Don't think small about your song

00:39:10.170 --> 00:39:14.150
or other expression of praise. You are accomplishing

00:39:14.150 --> 00:39:16.809
more than you can imagine in bringing my kingdom

00:39:16.809 --> 00:39:20.880
to earth. So it's in that place of sorrow that

00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:24.780
your praise has more power. So going on, the

00:39:24.780 --> 00:39:26.980
Lord said, Scott and Carolyn did their part in

00:39:26.980 --> 00:39:29.760
an amazing way. They were amazed to see how I

00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:31.780
used their offerings of worship when they arrived

00:39:31.780 --> 00:39:34.780
here. They heard my well -done good and faithful

00:39:34.780 --> 00:39:37.800
servant enter into the joy of your Lord. They

00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:40.179
have entered into my realm of life and love that

00:39:40.179 --> 00:39:44.340
is beyond their wildest dreams. You need to dream

00:39:44.340 --> 00:39:47.889
bigger of me. and my plans to pour out of the

00:39:47.889 --> 00:39:51.570
spirit of me. Your rejoicing, especially at this

00:39:51.570 --> 00:39:55.670
time, brings an enhanced glory to me and to you

00:39:55.670 --> 00:39:58.889
as you partner with me in your time of loss,

00:39:59.110 --> 00:40:02.190
grief, sorrow, and lack of understanding of my

00:40:02.190 --> 00:40:05.730
way. Your trust in me at this time, in this season,

00:40:05.829 --> 00:40:09.429
exudes a glory light into your atmosphere that

00:40:09.429 --> 00:40:12.599
makes darkness flee. Every wave of grief that

00:40:12.599 --> 00:40:16.059
hits you brings with an opportunity to praise

00:40:16.059 --> 00:40:19.139
me and bring my light into earth's atmosphere,

00:40:19.320 --> 00:40:22.239
expelling darkness. I am here to give you the

00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:25.400
grace to accomplish this with my help. This offering

00:40:25.400 --> 00:40:28.139
helps to prepare the way for my coming. It is

00:40:28.139 --> 00:40:31.099
helping to bring about a shift of dominion in

00:40:31.099 --> 00:40:35.539
the earth. Oh, that's beautiful. So that is just

00:40:35.539 --> 00:40:39.949
another aspect of the importance of praise. Like

00:40:39.949 --> 00:40:42.409
no matter where you are, no matter what your

00:40:42.409 --> 00:40:46.610
circumstances are, praise helps get a breakthrough.

00:40:46.769 --> 00:40:49.590
And when you are at your lowest, when you're

00:40:49.590 --> 00:40:53.909
depressed, when you're anxious, that's when praise

00:40:53.909 --> 00:40:56.170
will help you get the breakthrough. Yeah. And

00:40:56.170 --> 00:40:59.170
in Sister Gwen's book, one of her chapters is

00:40:59.170 --> 00:41:02.369
how praise brings revival. Amen. Now the first

00:41:02.369 --> 00:41:05.510
real move of the Spirit, you know, in the New

00:41:05.510 --> 00:41:08.360
Testament, Happened in the book of Acts. The

00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:11.039
Holy Spirit is poured out on the Temple Mount.

00:41:11.159 --> 00:41:14.920
3 ,000 people get saved. And so you got this

00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:18.139
big move going on. And I'm going to read a couple

00:41:18.139 --> 00:41:21.059
scriptures just out of, this is the end of chapter

00:41:21.059 --> 00:41:25.719
2, verse 45. And sold their possessions and goods

00:41:25.719 --> 00:41:28.360
and parted them to all men as every man had need.

00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:31.940
And they continued daily with one accord, which

00:41:31.940 --> 00:41:49.900
is a key. Aha, there it is. Amen. So this is

00:41:49.900 --> 00:41:53.079
the... one of the start of the first big move

00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:56.099
of God in the New Testament. And you look back

00:41:56.099 --> 00:41:59.500
then, they couldn't get on Integrity and download

00:41:59.500 --> 00:42:03.139
CCLI and download some music and whatever key

00:42:03.139 --> 00:42:05.199
they want to sing in for whatever instrument.

00:42:05.739 --> 00:42:08.559
There was none of that. What they had is what

00:42:08.559 --> 00:42:11.019
they sang in the synagogue was the scriptures.

00:42:11.480 --> 00:42:13.659
Absolutely. Because they would sing, you know,

00:42:13.659 --> 00:42:16.940
right after the upper room. Yeah, and they had

00:42:16.940 --> 00:42:19.639
the Last Supper. They went out to Mount of Olives

00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:22.039
and they sung a hymn. Right. It wasn't a hymn

00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:24.860
book. Right. It was the Hallel. It was one of

00:42:24.860 --> 00:42:28.280
the psalms they would read or they would sing

00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:31.760
during the time of the readings during Passover

00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:34.400
and that. Right. So that was the start. There

00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:37.550
wasn't any... Nice instruments. There was no

00:42:37.550 --> 00:42:40.829
guitars. The lute hadn't been invented yet. Nothing

00:42:40.829 --> 00:42:44.889
hardly had been, as we know it. David had invented

00:42:44.889 --> 00:42:46.849
a bunch. David had harp. He had mostly harps.

00:42:46.989 --> 00:42:49.389
And you had flutes. You had different instruments.

00:42:49.570 --> 00:42:51.429
You could read that. And trumpets. Trumpets.

00:42:51.670 --> 00:42:55.170
Cymbals. Cymbals. Asaph was the worship leader,

00:42:55.289 --> 00:42:57.690
and he played cymbals. Imagine what that would

00:42:57.690 --> 00:43:02.070
do to a microphone in front of him. But they

00:43:02.070 --> 00:43:04.449
learned to praise, and they just praised and

00:43:04.449 --> 00:43:06.449
worshiped. And now we have all this available

00:43:06.449 --> 00:43:09.869
to us that we have, and we have the scriptures

00:43:09.869 --> 00:43:13.590
and what happens. And even in your darkest moment,

00:43:13.750 --> 00:43:17.409
and even Paul and Silas, you know, and they were...

00:43:17.719 --> 00:43:21.559
And come over to Macedonia and help us. And that

00:43:21.559 --> 00:43:24.380
was the vision given to Paul. So they worked

00:43:24.380 --> 00:43:27.320
their way there. They're in Macedonia. And then

00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:30.019
they get thrown in jail for preaching the gospel.

00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:33.440
And they got stripes on them. They were whipped.

00:43:33.679 --> 00:43:36.380
They were whipped. And so they're locked in the

00:43:36.380 --> 00:43:40.219
stocks. They're in the prison. And at midnight,

00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:44.090
they're singing praises and rejoicing. Praising

00:43:44.090 --> 00:43:46.989
God. They got a bleeding back, probably. You

00:43:46.989 --> 00:43:49.989
know, who knows? Bones are bruised. But they're

00:43:49.989 --> 00:43:52.650
praising God. I mean, what happens if we fall

00:43:52.650 --> 00:43:55.110
down once? Oh, wow. But can you imagine getting

00:43:55.110 --> 00:43:58.130
whipped on your back? How many lashes? Yeah.

00:43:58.210 --> 00:44:01.389
And they're praising God. And what happens? But

00:44:01.389 --> 00:44:04.809
an earthquake. Yeah. And great fear fell upon

00:44:04.809 --> 00:44:07.969
the people, fell upon the jailer. He crawls in.

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What must I do to get saved? Right. What happened?

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Something happened in that praise. So we unlocked,

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you know, they unlocked him and all the prisoners,

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they didn't run off. They took him to his house.

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They dressed their wounds, fed him, you know,

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a nice cup of hot chocolate maybe or something.

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I don't know. And they just preached the word

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and they get saved. And the next day, you know,

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they get released. Yeah. But they praised God

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and God met them in their circumstances. Right.

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You know, and when we're in an airplane. Yeah,

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I don't like turbulence. Nobody really likes.

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I do. I like it. I just say, oh, it's like a

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rocking chair, and I just lean back into it,

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and I go to sleep. I think if it were more of

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an Elijah. going up with Elijah in his chariot,

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start praying in tongues, you know, Sharni, I

00:44:59.550 --> 00:45:02.030
thought about you. You're up and you're just

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bouncing through the clouds in this chariot,

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you know, and it helps me get through that. But

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the power and praise, we didn't touch worship.

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This was the power and what happens in praise.

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Right. And we have that marvelous story that

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was the beginning of Raise a Hallelujah. That

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song that came out of Bethel as a result of this

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child that was dying. And everybody thought,

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this is it. Tonight's the night. He's going to

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go home to be with the Lord. And the Lord gave

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them this song, I raise a hallelujah in the presence

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of my enemies. And they sang it and God raised

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up the child. And so we can put a link to their

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song on YouTube where they tell the story. But

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it's powerful that... Your praise, that word

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hallelujah, it's a command to give great, glorious

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glory to the Lord. It has to do with how David

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danced before the Lord with all his might. Okay,

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that kind of give him glory is really what hallelujah

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is telling you to do. It's really two words,

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hallelujah and yah, which is the shortened version

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of God's name. Praise Him. And people that have

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gone to heaven and come back, and I know of at

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least one or two stories where they watch somebody

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get blessed in heaven and they just shout, Hallelujah!

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And everybody stops what they're doing because

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it's a command. And everybody's perfectly obedient

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in heaven. So everyone stops what they're doing

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and they begin to praise. And that's one of the

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keys when we are flowing with the Holy Spirit.

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Whether it's the Holy Spirit leading us into

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travailing, weeping prayer, or whether it's the

00:46:55.800 --> 00:46:59.579
Holy Spirit leading us into this marvelous praise,

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or whether it's intercession by using the Word,

00:47:03.380 --> 00:47:08.019
like we have in Psalm 103, verse 20, where it

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says, Bless the Lord, you his angels that excel

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in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening

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to the voice of his word. The angels are standing

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around waiting for us to give voice to the word

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of God. Yeah. And when we pray the scriptures,

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they go to work. Yeah. And it's Psalm 150. Yeah.

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Praise you, the Lord. Yes. That's hallelujah.

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Yeah. Praise God in his sanctuary. Praise him

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in the firmament of his power. Yes, and anytime

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you see praise ye the Lord in English, It's hallelujah

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in Hebrew. I just want to add one more verse

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because this is key to what we're talking about

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in defeating our enemy. Okay. Psalm 149 says,

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and it starts in verse one says, praise you the

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Lord. So that's hallelujah again. So in verse

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6, it says, let the high praises of God be in

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their mouth and a two -edged sword in their hand

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to execute vengeance upon the heathen or the

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nations, right? So it could also be in the spirit

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realm, right? And punishment upon the people

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to bind their kings with chains. And I believe

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this is definitely having to do with our enemy.

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that we're fighting with, because we're wrestling

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not against flesh and blood, but against principalities

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and powers and rulers of the darkness of this

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world and spiritual wickedness in high places.

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So it's verse 8, to bind their kings with chains

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and their nobles with fetters of iron, to execute

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upon them the judgment written, this honor have

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all his saints. Hallelujah. So it's our honor.

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As we flow with the Holy Spirit, he will pray

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through us. He will praise through us and fill

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the atmosphere with the glory of God that makes

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