CTN Episode 20 – Prayer for a Nation

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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. Make me a house of prayer. How many

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pastors or assistant pastors or heads of prayer

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ministries do we have here today? Wonderful.

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Yes. This is what Kingdom Intercessors is about.

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United is about. The gathering together of not

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just... Those who are, we would, I don't even

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know how to, believers, but those who are leaders

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as well. I think it's good that we all gather

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together in one accord in one place and seek

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his face. Amen? Thank you, Lord. Praise you,

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Jesus. Well, we're going to go ahead and get

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into the word this morning. I've had so many

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notes lately, and I didn't get to use any of

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them. But I think this morning we're going to

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stick with the program and that there's a need

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for line upon line, precept upon precept, because

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I truly believe in my heart that in the body

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of Christ, there is a lack of teaching. in regards

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to the art of intercession and some things that

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need to be accomplished through this type of

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prayer. And I believe that what the Spirit of

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God wants us to do is to help fill those gaps,

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fill in those holes, bring instruction and guidance

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along certain regards and certain lines. I really

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believe that there's people here and people even

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that are watching this that many of you are seasoned

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intercessors. And what I was hearing when I was

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praying in tongues is many of you who are seasoned

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intercessors, you have been through hell and

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back. And what the Holy Ghost says, he said,

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I'm going to strengthen the feeble knees. I'm

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going to strengthen them. And all that warfare

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that you have been experiencing is going to break

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off of you today. Don't clap. Because what the

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enemy has desired to have you, that he may sift

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you as wheat and cause you to be ineffective

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in your prayers and intercessions. to wear you

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out, wear you down with circumstances and all

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kinds of clutter. And the God of all flesh, the

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God who is Jehovah Jireh, the God who is the

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strength of our life is going to strengthen us

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with might by his spirit in our inner man. And

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we're going to rise up out of this. depression

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I think some of you are in, and out of this warfare,

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and he's going to bring you into a wide open

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place and in a new place of grace. And see, it's

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been the enemy that's attacked his key intercessors

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and some of his key leaders. It's been the enemy.

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And we haven't discerned it properly because,

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to be honest, we live in New Jersey, New York,

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on the East Coast, and there's so many distractions

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coming at us. Sometimes I think we just get muddied

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with everything that's going on between the natural

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and the spirit. And those of you that are very

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spirit conscious, you're keenly aware of what's

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going on in the spirit, but then you're also

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bombarded with what's going on in the natural.

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And with all this going on, the enemies tried

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to neutralize us. Well, guess what? No mas. It

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is the anointing that breaks the yoke. And you

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will know the truth, and the truth will set you

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free. And the place we receive truth is from

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one place. It's the foundation of the word of

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God. I'm just going to be straight up with you.

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I don't want to hear your experiences. I'm bored

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with it. I'm done. Listen, don't get me wrong.

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We all have experiences. But what we need is

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we need the foundation of the word of God so

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that when the winds come and the storms come

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and beat against our house, it's not our experiences

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that's going to cause us to overcome. It is the

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word of the living God implanted in your heart

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that lives and abides forever that is going to

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cause you to stand. the days that we live in.

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Are you listening to what I'm saying to you?

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It is very important that we build our lives,

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build our hearts, build our churches, build what

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we're doing on the word of God. Kenneth E. Hagin

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once said, he said, long after some of these

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people are gone, he said, I'll still be standing

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here because I have the foundation of the word

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of God. And he was a true prophet, and he was

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never pressured into prophesying when the spirit

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wasn't there to prophesy. He didn't stir anything

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up in the flesh. If there wasn't that anointing

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there, he just taught. the word of God. And the

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word of God has not returned void and the word

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of God is not boring. I believe we need more

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teaching in the church because the church is

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tiltering and being tossed to and fro and carried

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about by all kinds of winds of doctrine. But

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the way we stabilize the church is by sticking

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with the Bible. The spirit and the word, they

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agree. We need both. Too much word and we dry

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up. Too much spirit and we blow up. You get a

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combination of both the word and the spirit and

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the church will arise and the church will shine

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and the church will grow up. and the church will

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be an exceeding great army that God has called

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us to be in these last days because we are truly

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in the last days. We truly are. But I have a

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warning inside of my spirit I just want to share

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with you is stick with the Bible. Hold fast.

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to that which you have learned and received.

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Be doers of the word and not hearers only. Build

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your lives. Build your foundation on the word

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of God because there are winds and storms that

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are beating against the church of Jesus Christ

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in this hour. And if we don't have a firm foundation,

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my friends, I'm not a prophet of doom, but we're

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not going to make it. What happens? What happened

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to speaking the word? What happened to guarding

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your heart? What happened to thinking on those

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things that are pure and lovely and of a good

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rapport? What happened to those principles of

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faith that our fathers taught us? I remember

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about 15 years ago, men actually talked against

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and despised Kenneth E. Hagin, the father of

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faith. Are you kidding? Jesus Christ himself

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appeared to him in about seven visions. Read

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it in his book, I believe, in visions. And Jesus

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Christ himself taught him. Why did he have to

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do that? Because there were no principles. Those

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principles were not there in the church. And

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Jesus taught him and ministered to him and taught

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him through the word these principles so that

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the church could be stabilized and grow up into

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maturity. So what I believe is happening in the

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church right now, I know what's happening in

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the church. I believe there's coming together

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of the streams. Gee, Kenneth E. Hagin was right

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after all. Our ministries don't have any money.

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Maybe we should start believing for some money.

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Because how is this gospel of the kingdom going

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to be reached to all nations? He gives you the

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power to get wealth. Why? That he may establish

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his covenant. But here's the other side of it.

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So the word people, they need the spirit. Too

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much word, we dry up. We got really bored in

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church for a while. People were bored. So people

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started going out and seeking those things that

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would cause them to hunger and thirst more for

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the things of God. And that's all good. But I

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believe that there's come an emerging of the

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streams. That's why I believe that we must love

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one another as Christ has loved you. We must

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lay down our lives. Greater love has no man than

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this, that a man would lay down his life for

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his friends. We need to love one another. We

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need to bear one another's burdens. We need to

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understand one another. And though you and I

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may not understand each other, and we may not

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100 % agree with one another, but we can still

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love one another. I have this banner that I wanted

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to post on my wall, but I haven't done it yet.

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It's one of my favorite things that Rick Joyner

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said. And I like Rick Joyner. He discipled me

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for three years when I was what I call hidden

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in my house. How is it possible that somebody

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can disciple you and you never met him? Through

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his writings, through his books, through his

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word in the books, the word of God. And I like

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him because he's a humble man. He's very humble.

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He always gives the glory to Jesus. But he said

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something in one of his banners. He said, the

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Lord is more interested in us loving one another

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than he is in us opposing one another with our

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doctrinal differences. He'd rather we have doctrinal

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differences and still walk in love. And just

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love one another. Let's just love one another.

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Let's just start laying down our lives. We can

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have unity without all being in agreement with

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all these different teachings that are going

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on in the body of Christ. But I believe that

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we must stabilize and do everything that we do

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in the light of the scripture. Are you listening?

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My book, Contend, Stewarding the Hearts and Destinies

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of Our Children Through Prayer, is one of my

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most favorite projects thus far. In this book,

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I teach the reader how to pray effectively for

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their children, their grandchildren, and the

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rising generations that are in the earth today.

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Make no mistake about it. There is war over the

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hearts and the destinies of our children. And

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this book will equip you as to how. to pray effectively

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for those young people. In this book, I teach

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you about the power and the purpose of praying

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in tongues. I show you what a prayer alert looks

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like. There are sample prayers. Not only that,

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there are outlines at the end of each chapter.

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So if you run a Bible study, you can use this

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book as a springboard to teach others how to

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pray for their children. Go to my website at

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margieflaurent .org. and pick up your own copy.

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So that was my little speech. Number two, I believe

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that God's called us together because not only

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are the strong intercessors need to be encouraged

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and strengthened, but I believe God wants to

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raise up some young intercessors. He wants to

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anoint them with fresh oil. He wants us as fathers

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and mothers to teach them how to pray. You know,

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the disciples, when the disciples came to Jesus

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in Luke 11, verse 1, they didn't say, Lord, teach

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us to prophesy. Lord, teach us how to cast out

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devils. Lord, teach us how to preach. Teach us

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how to make homiletically correct sermons and

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outlines. We need all that. I get it. But they

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came to him and they said, Lord, are you kidding

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me? We've been watching you. And you continually

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flow in a river of revelation. And you continually

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are moved. with compassion and you heal the sick.

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You continually know what kind of spirit is behind

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a person. You know exactly how to minister effectively

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to them. And they notice, hey, what are you doing

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when you leave town and you go up in a mountain

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and disappear? What are you doing? Why does he

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get up early in the morning? Who the heck wants

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to get up early in the morning? I'm getting there.

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It's getting better. It's like, really? They

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would watch him, and they saw that he would get

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up early, and he would go, and what was he doing?

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He was praying. So when the disciples came to

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Jesus, I believe they asked him the most important

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question they could have possibly asked him.

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They said, Lord, we've been watching you, and

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we know what you have, and we don't have it,

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and we want it. So, Lord, teach us to pray. I

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believe our young people need to be taught how

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to pray. We have to pass this baton back to them

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or on to them. Kenneth E. Hagin passed it to

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me. Bobby Jean Mark passed it to me. Billy Brim

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passed it to me. The Halversons passed it to

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me. Who am I going to pass it to? Who are you

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going to pass it to? We've got to train and equip

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this next generation, not just in the word, but

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in how to pray effectively. Lord, teach us to

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pray. Prayer opens up the door for God to work.

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Prayer changes things. First person it changes

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is you. But then prayer changes your world. And

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specifically for this morning, prayer changes

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your nation and will change your nation. Our

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message this morning is entitled Prayer for a

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Nation. And I didn't say prayer for America because

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I believe this word can be used to all the nations

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of the world. It is not just, you know, the United

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States hasn't yet seen some of the persecution,

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but some of these other nations are right in

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the midst of persecution. And you and I are sitting

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in this church, and it's good. We're here. But

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there are men and our brothers and our sisters

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that are living in other countries that need

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to know how to pray for their nation. Not only

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that, they need our prayers. I'm just going to

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go with what comes up in my spirits, okay? Prayer

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produces intimacy. Prayer produces intimacy with

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the one you pray to. We know who that is. The

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one you pray for and the one you pray with. But

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prayer for a nation. And this is what I believe

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is going to be happening as we press into God

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and as we gather together in our churches and

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in our corporate meetings. I believe. that as

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we're open and yielded to the Holy Spirit and

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sensitive to his voice and his leading, I believe

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what's going to happen is Acts 10, 44. You see

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this here? This is a program. I made it. If anybody

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knows anything about me, everything's got to

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be lined up. By the minute, absolutely nothing

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out of place. And it's good to have programs.

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But we also have to be open and receptive and

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yielded to the Holy Ghost because I believe what's

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going to happen is as we see the day approaching

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and as we gather together and we come together,

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as we see... the day approaching i believe that

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the spirit of grace and supplication and the

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holy ghost and prayer is going to begin to fall

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on our congregations and our program is going

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to go out the window and it's not going to be

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a minister to me minister to me kind of a service

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even though that's okay it's going to be more

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of the spirit of prayer moving in the womb of

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god's body of the body of christ because the

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lord Lord is going to utter his voice before

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his great army. Jesus Christ is the head. We

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are the body. We get our orders from him. And

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he's going to begin to stir within us both to

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will and to do of his good pleasure. And he is

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going to stir up. the spirit of grace and supplication,

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and we are going to begin to enter into prayers

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and intercessions and givings of thanks, and

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we're going to begin to birth something. I believe

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that God has some surprises for us. I don't know

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about you, but I'm ready to use what God has

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given me. Let me just say this, and you know

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this. You and I know more word than Catherine

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Coleman did in her day. What are we doing with

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it? I believe we could channel what we know in

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prayer. The Bible says, ask for the heathen.

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They're your inheritance. And the uttermost parts

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of the earth are your possessions. Believe we

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could use our faith and use the knowledge of

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what we have take it into that place of prayer

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And I believe we could pull down Strongholds

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we could ask for the heathen we could pull them

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up out of darkness into this life the Bible says

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and of some have compassion and others save with

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fear pulling them up pit and causing them to

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see the light of the glorious gospel in the face

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of Jesus Christ. Kennedy Hagan once said, he

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said, some people will never be saved or healed

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unless someone stands in the gap, puts up the

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hedge, and prays for them. Why is that? It's

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because darkness has them blinded. The Bible

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says the God of this world has blinded the minds

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of them that believe not. Do you remember what

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you were like before you accepted Jesus Christ

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as your personal Lord and Savior? You were blinded.

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You were without hope. You were alienated from

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God. You were groping in darkness. You didn't

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know about God or Jesus, or maybe you did, and

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you just didn't know how to get to Him. But when

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you pray and you stand in the gap for somebody

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and you intercede, what happens is you go into

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the Spirit, That's why Jesus said you ought to

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always pray and not faint. You go into the realm

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of the spirit and you're going in. You're not

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going in powerless. Who told you you were powerless?

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Greater is he that's in you than he that's in

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the world. You have the God of Abraham, Isaac,

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and Jacob living on the inside of you. The one

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who was and is to come. The one who is alive

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forevermore and holds the keys of hell, death,

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and the grave. You are strong in the Lord and

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in the power of his might. You have the full

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armor of God and you are able to pray and see

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results in your prayers. That's the devil that's

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lying to you. My prayers don't work. Really?

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What does the Bible say? Let's get back to the

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Bible. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous

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man avails much. Are you the righteousness of

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God in Christ Jesus? Are you the head and not

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the tail and above only and not beneath? That's

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me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's me. Well,

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then your prayers work. You just can't be moved

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by what you see. You can't be moved by what you

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feel. You can't be moved, especially when you're

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praying for something and it gets worse. It gets

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worse because it's getting better. You're going

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in like Jeremiah 9 -1. You're rooting things

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out. You're pulling things down. And that devil,

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those demons, those evil spirits, whatever's

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going on, even that person's own will, they don't

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want to give up. And so they get uncomfortable.

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What's this atmosphere I feel around me? Something's

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convicting me. Something's convincing me. Something's

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causing me to see my need for Jesus. It's the

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Holy Ghost. It's not by might. It's not by power.

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It's by the Spirit. It's the Holy Ghost. It's

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the Holy Ghost convicting them. And it's because

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someone stood in the gap for them, put up the

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hedge, and prayed instant, in season and out

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of season, yielded to the groanings. Yielded

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to the inner workings of the Holy Ghost. Prayed

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in tongues when they didn't know what to pray.

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Because how the heck do you pray for somebody

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when you just have run out of everything to pray?

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You use your prayer language. You go beyond your

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language and your head and everything you know,

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and you go into the place where he that searches

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the hearts knows what is the mind of the spirit

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because he makes intercession according to the

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will of God because he knows everything. We don't

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know everything. Since when do we think we know

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everything? I know it. I know. I know. We don't

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know everything. That's why I thank my God I

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speak in tongues more than you all, the Apostle

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Paul said. I spend about 95 % of my praying praying

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in tongues. Well, my mind is unfruitful. I don't

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know what I'm praying. you pray that speaks in

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an unknown tongue speaks not unto men but unto

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god how be it in the spirit he speaks Mysteries.

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And he that searches the heart. Inside my heart,

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I just don't know. And I absolutely cannot figure

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this thing out. But you, God, you are all -knowing

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and all -sufficient, and I yield myself to you.

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You are Ishaya, and you are Limesh. And, oh,

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my God, establish your people in this day and

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in this hour. Oh, God. Revive your work in the

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midst of these times. Make your mercy and your

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grace known in wrath. Remember mercy. But I just

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don't know what else to pray. So I yield myself

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to you. And I say, oh, my God. And my heart becomes

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his heart. Because the more you pray and the

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more you stand upon that watch, the more you

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begin to see as he sees. You begin to love as

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he loves. You begin to desire what he desires.

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And your thoughts become agreeable with his thoughts,

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and then your prayers work. They succeed. But

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we've neglected praying in the Holy Ghost. Yes,

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we have. Turn to your neighbor and say, yes,

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we have. I shall not be moved. And we shall run

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and not grow weary. We shall walk and not faint.

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And we will move. in the spirit of prophecy and

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prayer. And we will use everything we've learned

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about prophetic, being a prophetic people. And

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we will take our place in prayer. And we will

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rightly divide the word of God and the word of

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truth. And together we will see this revival

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born. But it's not going to happen if my people,

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which are called by my name, don't humble themselves

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and pray and seek my face and turn from this

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wicked ways. You've got to pray. You've got to

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pray. And having done all to stand, you stand

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therefore. I'm telling you with an attitude.

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With an attitude. Something in you is stronger

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than something on the outside of you. With an

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attitude. I will not be moved. I've seen it in

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the spirit and I'm not moved by what I see in

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the natural realm. The natural realm is subject

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to the spirit. How can you say that? Give me

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chapter and verse. The spirit was here first

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and then God spoke and everything became. This

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is my book, Decision Time. Everyone should read

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this book, especially those of you who are at

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a crossroads in your life. You don't know what

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to do. You don't know how God is leading you.

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This is the book where you reach a place where

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you say, Lord, not my will, your will be done

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in my life. I also include in this book. how

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to hear the voice of God, which is important

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when you're making decisions. If you go to my

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website at margieflaurent .org, you will see

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that this book is available to you. Thank you

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so much for tuning in to today's podcast. It

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has been such a joy sharing this time with you.

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For more inspiration and resources on today's

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