CTN Episode 19 – Praying Over the Hearts and Destiny of Our Children (Part 2)

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You pray it and he can answer it. The effectual

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fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

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God will put the prayer in your heart to pray

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so that he can answer it. It goes into the hearts

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of the people, doesn't return void, it produces

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results. What he wants to do and just say, yes,

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Lord. Do you remember, Cheryl, the days of old

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when we would pray for an hour? and nobody was

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looking around, and everybody was just groaning

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in the Spirit, if that's how the Holy Ghost was

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manifesting in intercession, and we just entered

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in, we yielded. What happened to that spirit

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of prayer? It's called the spirit of grace and

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supplication. God is reviving it. So don't grow

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weary in well -doing, Mrs. Florent. Faye Scott

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Gordon. Those of you that are prayer leaders,

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Pastor Mark, Angel Marano, my friend Karen Fontana,

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who has paved the way, especially in praying

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for the youth. We just got to keep doing what

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we're doing. Though the vision, we'll wait for

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it. Our prayers are working. They're availing

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much. And you don't always see what they're doing.

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does my Father who sees in secret, not only does

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he reward you for your praying, my Father who

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sees in secret sees the effects of all your prayers.

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And in the realm of the Spirit, the highway is

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being built. The crooked ways are being made

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straight and the rough places are being made

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plain. Angels are being set up over here. Angels

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are being set up over there. Demons tremble when

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you pray in tongues. They don't understand the

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mystery. They tremble. All they know is, is when

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you pray in tongues, his camp is demolished.

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When you pray in tongues, it goes into the realm

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of the spirit and aborts his plans, purposes,

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and schemes. Well, you know, we don't want the

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church to pray in tongues anymore. What are we

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doing? When we're praying in tongues, He that

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speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not unto men

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but unto God, how be it in the Spirit. You speak

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mysteries. You speak the wisdom of God in a mystery.

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When you don't know how to pray, what to say,

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what to do, you have the Holy Ghost within you

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who rises up within you and prays the absolute

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perfect prayer. I wonder why the devils attack

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tongues so much. You know, you think about the...

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You can be seated, but I'm not done. You can

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keep playing. This isn't my message. You think

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about the early church when that was born. At

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the birth of the church age, what was the very

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first thing that manifested? And they were all

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filled with the Holy Ghost. And they all began

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to what? Speak in other tongues as the Spirit

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gave mantras. how many times Jesus talked about

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the Holy Ghost. It was 200 and something, or

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maybe less. I know in the New Testament, I think

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it was 233 times he was mentioned. But he talked

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about the Holy Ghost all the time. We need the

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Holy Ghost in prayer. We need him. Listen, I

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do 99 and 9 tenths of my praying in other tongues.

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you go away for five days to seek God and you

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pray day in and day out. After a while, you start

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running out of your understanding. The Apostle

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Paul said, I thank my God. I speak in tongues

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more than you all. So I just want to encourage

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you to stir up the gift of God. Amen? Praise

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God. Thank you, Angel. Isn't she a blessing?

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That's my girl. How long have we been friends?

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38 years. 38 years. Yeah. We've been together

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for a long time. Thank you, Jesus. How is everyone

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today? Good. How many of you ran into that detour

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over by the parkway? Thank God. for the GPS.

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Amen? I'm going to talk today for a little bit,

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and then my sister -in -law, Kathy Bixle, is

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going to come right up behind me. I want to talk

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to you about contending for the hearts and destiny

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of our future leaders, which would mean our children.

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Now, when we talk about praying for our children

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or our future leaders, we're not just talking

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about the children that were born from your womb.

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Because many of you have birthed spiritual children

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and they didn't come out of your body. They were

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birthed through you in the spirit. When we talk

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about these children, we're talking about your

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cousin. We're talking about... Any child that

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you have in your sphere of influence, there is

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war over the destiny and hearts of our children.

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I have never had such a prayer assignment and

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a prayer burden like I have had in the last four

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months. If any of you have been on any of our

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prayer calls, you know that to be true. And when

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we decided to do this KIU event, the Holy Ghost

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said, you make that the theme. Then you film

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it, and then you put it up over the Internet

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and get that word out into all the world. There

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is war against the hearts and the destiny of

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these children. Let me tell you my story real

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quick. I was 34 years old, 33 -ish, and I was

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sitting in the front row of Faith Fellowship

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Ministries. Pastor Dave, I believe, was teaching.

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And when I was sitting there, the Holy Ghost

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said to me, you're going to have trouble conceiving.

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Aren't you glad for the Holy Ghost? He always

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shows you things to come and he warns you. You

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know the prophecies given that you can war a

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good warfare. Do you know that that child that

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you have the most war with is probably the child

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that's the most marked? Are you listening to

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what I'm saying? He said, you're going to have

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trouble conceiving, but the Holy Ghost said,

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he said, fear not. He said, you are going to

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conceive. He said, and your firstborn will be

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a son, and you're to call his name John. And

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told me several things about him. I called him

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Jonathan when he was born. I didn't think God

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cared, but now they call him John. Everybody

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calls him John. So what happened is, my story,

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my journey was that it was true. I was having

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a very difficult time conceiving. So my husband

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and I were connected with Bill Cooper, who was

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a doctor in Pennsylvania. And so we went to see

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him, and to make a very long story short, it

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was in the best interest of me in order to get

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pregnant to uh go through what's called in vitro

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fertilization okay we're talking 26 years ago

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it's not as popular as it is today so i remember

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um coming home after one of the treatments and

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i remember pulling into my garage and i remember

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Pulling in, turning my car off, and the Holy

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Ghost said, he said, you're going to have twins

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in your first pregnancy, and you will get pregnant

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through in vitro fertilization. He said, and

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in your second pregnancy, you are going to have

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a singleton, and you will get pregnant on your

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own. I wrote it down. I still have the original

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piece. paper these children were destined to

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be mine not only as a natural parent but as a

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spiritual parent as a watchman as a woman of

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God watching over their lives and making sure

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that that which God has called them to do is

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surely gonna come to pass and there is no other

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love like a mother's love Right? You start messing

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with the kids. And a father's love. You start

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messing with the kids and the claws come out.

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The horns come out. You will climb over any mountain.

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You will do anything for your kids. Do you know

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that the greatest thing we could do for our children

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really is to lay down our lives and to pray for

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them and sow into them in prayer? So this is

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the cool thing. The very first in vitro fertilization.

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shot that we did, procedure that we did, I got

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pregnant. That's a miracle. How many of you have

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some miracle kids? You weren't supposed to have

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babies, you know, this, that, and the other thing,

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and then you get pregnant. Like, hello? To some

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of you, it's a little bit of a shocker. But let

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me tell you what, God has everything under control.

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So, about... 30 weeks into the pregnancy, I went

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into preterm labor. Not fun. I was put on complete

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bed rest. They gave me this medication to try

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to stop the contractions. You know, and that

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was the day of my shower, remember? And so they

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held off the contractions and held off the contractions

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as long as they possibly could. But ready or

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not, these babies were coming. The Lord spoke

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to me one day. He said, Marty, many of my people

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desire to be intimate with me. They desire to

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spend time with me. They desire to have a vibrant

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prayer life, but they just don't know where to

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begin. They just don't know how to start. So

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I wrote this book with that in mind. Encountering

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God Through Prayer, Simple Strategies to Develop

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a Powerful Prayer Life. I take the reader from

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the very basics. Begin where you are. Begin with

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15 minutes. Find a quiet place in your house.

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Go into a closet if you have to. Shut the door.

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Just begin where you are. And I teach the reader

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about the heart of the Father. Because if you

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don't know who God is, you're not going to understand

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His character and His nature, and you'll be afraid

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of Him. So I go into the heart of the Father.

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Who is the Father? What's his character? What's

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his nature? And then I take the reader all the

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way up into what I call contemplative prayer.

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So if you would like a wonderful resource on

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how to begin your prayer life, I encourage you

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to get this book, Encountering God Through Prayer.

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Go to my website at margieflaurent .org. into

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the OR because we had to do an emergency c -section

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and I remember you know how they do ladies you

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know how they do my husband he couldn't really

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deal too much with any of that because he faints

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at the sight of blood but they put that curtain

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up and they went in and they took Jonathan out

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he came out and he came out screaming and crying

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and I knew wow that's I'm a mother When I went

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in to get Danielle, she didn't want to come out.

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I could feel her crawling up under my ribs and

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it took a while to get her out. She didn't want

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to come out. And I remember that when they finally

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got her out, she wasn't breathing. The devil

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is a liar. You can't steal, kill, and destroy

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anything that's mine. So right there in the OR,

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there began my fight. There I began to contend

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for my children. There I began to uphold them

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in prayer. I began to speak the word of God right

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in the OR that Satan would have desired to have

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them, to sift them as wheat, to take them out.

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But God had other plans. And there is power when

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a parent prays over their kids. And I began to

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speak the word of God over them right there,

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and I didn't care who was around. I said, Father,

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I thank you in the name of Jesus that you said

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in your word that you would make me the happy

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mother of children. I thank you that you said

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in your word that my kids will be like arrows

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in the hands of a warrior. I thank you that no

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weapon that is formed against my children will

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prosper in the name of Jesus. I bind the spirit

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of death, and I command life to flow into Danielle

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and life to flow into Jonathan in the name of

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Jesus. Long story short, six weeks later, they

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came home. Danielle was 4 1⁄2 pounds. Jonathan

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was 5 pounds. Itty -bitty babies. Two to three

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months later, I didn't know it, but I got pregnant.

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It was that one time that Marcia came to my house

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to help me with the babies. It's her fault. I

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didn't know I was pregnant. But seven months

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after my twins were born, I found out that this

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little movement that was taking place right in

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here was a baby. You're such a prophet of God.

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You are such a prophet. You are a seer. You see

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and know. Yeah, I had a baby on the inside of

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me and didn't even know it, some prophet. And

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within the same year, Jacqueline was born. Just

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like the Holy Ghost said. When God speaks something

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over your family, over your children, there is

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nothing that can stop that destiny from coming

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forth. I'm telling you, my friends, there has

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never been a generation like this generation

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of youth. The war has been raging against them.

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Let's look at this scripture. Psalms 127, verse

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3 and 4 says, Behold, children are a heritage

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from the Lord. The fruit of the womb is a reward.

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Like arrows in the hands of a warrior, so are

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the children of one's youth. There is a call

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on this generation of young people. Are you listening?

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I was talking to my friends last night, and it

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just came right out of my mouth. The Holy Ghost

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said they are a marked generation. Yesterday

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I was reading the Time magazine, and it was the

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November issue of 2016, and this is the title

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of an article that I was reading. Are you ready?

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The kids are not all right. Here's the subtitle.

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American teens are anxious, depressed, and overwhelmed.

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Experts are struggling over how to help them.

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We're talking about the world is saying that.

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And then a paragraph of that article said, adolescents

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today have a reputation for being more fragile,

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less resilient, and more overwhelmed than their

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parents were when they were growing up. Now,

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I've had this conversation. I love my husband,

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but I've had this conversation with my husband.

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You know, men and women, we balance each other

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out. I have a tendency to be a little more grace

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-mercy. He has a tendency to be a little more

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structured, you know, disciplinarian. He's like,

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there's not any more war over them. They don't

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have it any harder than we do. I just said to

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him, are you kidding me? I am surrounded by young

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people. Listen to me. They're having panic attacks.

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They're cutting themselves. The eating disorder

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thing is just off the charts. I could go on and

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on and on. He said, this article said, sometimes

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they are called coddled or helicoptered, but

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a closer look paints a far more heartbreaking

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portrait of why young people are suffering. Anxiety

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and depression has been on the rise since 2012

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after several years of stability. Are you listening?

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That's what the world is saying. But how many

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of you know that in Jesus, we have hope? I'm

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not moved by what I hear. what I see. I know

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God has a plan for the youth of this nation.

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I believe that the youth of this nation is going

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to be the generation that Kenneth E. Hagin spoke

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of when he prophesied and he said that there

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would be a generation. He said, and it's going

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to be said of them like it was said of the early

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church. They that have turned the world upside

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down have come hither also. 1 Peter 2, 9, they

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are a chosen generation. Yes, they are special.

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They've been told they're special, and the truth

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is, they are special. They're a chosen generation.

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The Bible says in Jeremiah 1, 5, that before

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I ever formed you in your mother's womb, I knew

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you. In the case of our kids, he's known them,

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and he has ordained them to live in a time such

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as this. I remember when the Twin Towers came

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down in 2001. I was asked to speak at Grace and

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Peace for a women's conference, and it was literally

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about a month after the Twin Towers came down.

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And I remember... the tone of the women that

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were in that women's meeting. They were upset,

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they were heartbroken, they were fearful because

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their children watched the Twin Towers come down.

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And my daughter said to me, Mommy, I thought

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that you said, I thought that you said, I thought

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that you said this would never happen here in

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our country. And I said, well, I was wrong. How

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many remember that day? I remember speaking in

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that women's conference. First of all, before

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that women's conference, I had never had such

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warfare and hell in years and years and years.

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Because, you know, if the devil can get to the

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leadership and the mothers and the fathers, he

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can get to the people. I remember almost calling

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Cindy and saying, I need to cancel. I can't do

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the meeting. But I said, you know what? I'm going

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to press through this warfare. I'm going to press

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in because God has a word for his ladies. And

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I remember stepping into that meeting, and for

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the first time I had a word about the youth of

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our nation to help bring comfort, but the Holy

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Ghost also was saying something. I said, you

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know what? Yeah. Our kids saw the Twin Towers

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come down. We get it. They've been exposed to

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violence and stress and living hell. Some of

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their friends were killed. Their friends' parents

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were killed in the Twin Towers. But the Holy

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Ghost said, those who I call, I equip. He said

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they were born for such a time as this, and I

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have equipped them to handle this atmosphere,

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this warfare. I have put within my youth an ingredient

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that has not been put on the inside of any other

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generation that has lived on the face of this

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earth. I was preaching in another event this

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past summer, and the Holy Ghost said something

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in that meeting. He went into prophesying, speaking

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prophetically about the youth of their nation,

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and I found this to be very interesting. You

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know when you prophesy, it's coming out of your

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mouth, and you're sitting there going, well,

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that's really good. I don't even know what I'm

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talking about. Because it's not you, it's the

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Holy Ghost speaking through you. And one of the

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things the Holy Ghost said, and then I saw it,

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he said, there's never been a generation like

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this generation. He said, I have more five -fold

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ministry gifts. that are in the earth today on

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the inside of your sons and your daughters like

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no other generation that has ever lived on the

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face of the earth. He said little Rahabs, little

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Joshua's, these little eagles are on the inside

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of the young people in this day and in this hour.

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That's why the enemy is trying to take them out.

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And let me just say something about the ministry.

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You've got a child and you're in the ministry.

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I don't want to say that they're doomed, but

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they're doomed to be in the ministry. Doom is

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not a good word, but the call of God is upon

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their life. And there's just something about

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the blessings of the ministry that filter down

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and are on the inside of our kids. They're marked.

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They're a marked generation. What are some promises

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concerning our children? Proverbs 22, 6. Train

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up a child in the way that he should go, and

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when he is old, he will not depart from it. I

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look at Cheryl's daughter. Her kids. I'm telling

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you, this woman trained those kids in the way

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that they should go. I don't care all the stuff

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that we've seen happening with some of our children.

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Guaranteed, if the Bible says you train them

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up in the ways that they should go, when they

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are old, guaranteed, they're coming back. They

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will not depart from it. Here's another promise,

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Acts 16, 31. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ

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and you will be saved. And what? And your household.

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Isaiah 54, 13. I love this one. All of your children

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will be taught of the Lord and great will be

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the peace, amplified and undisturbed composure

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of our children. All of them. Not one of them

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will be lost. I said all of them. I said all

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of them. All of them. All your children will

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be taught of the Lord, and great will be the

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peace of your children. So where do we begin?

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Five more minutes. We begin in faith. We begin

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in faith. We begin in faith, and we stay in faith.

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I said we begin in faith, and we stay in faith.

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We are not moved by what we see. We are not moved

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by what we hear. We are not moved by the circumstances.

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We are moved only on one thing, that the promises

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of God are yes and amen. Faith is the substance

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of things hoped for. It is the evidence of things

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you don't see. By faith, there were many things

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that happened. And by faith, all of our children

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will be taught of the Lord and great will be

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the peace and undisturbed composure of our children.

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And you've got to remain in faith. The Holy Ghost

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told me when I was preparing, he says, you tell

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my people, they got to remain in faith and watch

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what they say out of their mouth concerning their

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children. Life and death are in the power of

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the tongue. With our mouths we curse and with

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our mouths we bless. That ought not to be. I've

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prayed for my kids and prayed and prayed and

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prayed, and then something happens, you know.

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They don't put the dish in the dishwasher. Does

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anybody know the frustration? And then they go

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to college, and they come home, and then it's

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que sera, sera again. I'm just like, the dishwasher's

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empty. Put it in. Amen? And sometimes out of

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frustration, you know, you find yourself. Does

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anybody in here talk to yourselves? Come on,

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admit it. Come on. I find myself out of my own

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mouth saying things I shouldn't be saying about

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that child. How about the faith of Abraham? He

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considered not his body. He called those things

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that be not as though they were. He didn't consider

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the circumstances. Even though he was 100 years

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old and God promised him that he would be the

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father of many nations and all his descendants

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after him. And you know what? Abraham, the Bible

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says, was strong in faith, gave glory to God,

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and he never spoke negative about what God had

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promised. I believe that we need to watch what

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comes out of our mouth. Amen? This is my book,

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Decision Time. Everyone should read this book,

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especially those of you who are at a crossroads

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in your life. You don't know what to do. You

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don't know how God is leading you. This is the

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book where you reach a place where you say, Lord,

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not my will, your will be done in my life. I

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also include in this book. how to hear the voice

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of God, which is important when you're making

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decisions. If you go to my website at margieflaurent

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.org, you will see that this book is available

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to you. Thank you so much for tuning in to today's

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podcast. It has been such a joy sharing this

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time with you. For more inspiration and resources

00:28:33.579 --> 00:28:36.160
on today's topic, please visit our website at

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margieflaurent .org.