CTN Episode 31 | Prayer & Purpose ✨

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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. Okay, so let's continue because I wasn't

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quite finished. Talking about praying in tongues

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is praying in line with God's perfect will, purpose,

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and order. So when we pray in tongues, we are

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praying the perfect prayer. We highlighted Romans

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8, 26, that the Spirit helps in our weakness.

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When we don't know how to pray or what to pray

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as we ought, the Spirit himself makes intercession

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for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

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Now he who searches the hearts knows what the

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mind of the Spirit is because he makes intercession.

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for the saints according to the will of God.

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The will was put in there by the translators.

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You can also say when you pray in the Holy Ghost,

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when you yield to the Spirit of God, you're praying

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according to God. I just wanted to say that here.

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And then we know that all things work together

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for the good. So we said that we're praying his

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plans, his purposes, and his will. So if he says

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here, and I want to show you this, that when

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you pray in the Holy Ghost, you're praying according

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to the will of God. What does the Bible say?

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Let's go back to what the Bible says about this

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subject. 1 John 5, 8, one of my favorite scriptures,

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verse 14. Are you ready? This is the confidence.

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that we have in him. I love that word confidence.

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We can have confidence in him that if we ask

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anything according to his will, he hears us.

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And if we know, and we know, the Bible says it,

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he hears us. If we know he hears us, then we

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know that we have the petitions we desire of

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Him. So, the Word of God is the will of God.

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So when you pray the scripture, you pray the

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word of God, you're praying the will of God.

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But the scripture also just spoke to us out of

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Romans 8, 26 through 28, that when we pray in

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tongues, we yield to the person and the power

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of the Holy Spirit. My spirit by the Holy Spirit

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within me is praying. It says we're praying according

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to, are you listening? The will of God. And when

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you pray in tongues, you can have confidence.

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I know that God hears me when I pray. I know

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that when I pray in tongues, I'm praying the

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perfect prayer. I'm praying out of a pure language.

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I'm praying out of a pure heart. There's no selfish

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ambition, no pride involved. But when I pray

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in tongues, I can have confidence that I'm praying

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according to the will of God. And as a result,

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Eventually, as time goes on, I will see and have

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the petitions that I desire of him. Did you get

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that? And then all things will begin to work

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together for the good. And this is the thing

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about any kind of prayer that you pray. Any kind

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of prayer, and my particular program, I talk

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a lot about prayer, but any kind of prayer you

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pray, you can pray your prayer, but you have

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to believe that you receive, you have to stay

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in faith, you have to walk in faith. The same

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holds true when you're praying in the Spirit.

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When you don't know how to pray about something,

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you can pray in the Holy Ghost, okay? Let's go

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on. When you pray in the Holy Ghost, You are

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speaking or praying to God rooted and grounded

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from your right standing with him in Christ.

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I don't know if you've ever heard teaching, the

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teachings about who we are in Christ. We are

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in Christ. And I don't know exactly how many

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scriptures that talk about in him, in whom, in

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Christ, but there's a lot of scriptures that

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talk about our right standing in him, that we

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are complete in him. We are in him. So when you

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pray in tongues, it's Christ in you. We are crucified

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with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but

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Christ lives in me. When you pray in tongues,

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you're praying from that place of being rooted

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and grounded in Christ. This is so powerful.

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This is powerful, okay? So when you're praying

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from your right standing, With him in Christ,

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there is faith from this place. There's no unbelief.

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So when you're praying in the Holy Ghost, you're

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praying in the spirit, it's a pure prayer. And

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there's no unbelief at all. There is faith in

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this place. There is no fear in this place. There

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is confidence in him and there's no insecurity.

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Let me just read you a few scriptures because

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we don't have time to read them all, obviously.

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But 1 Corinthians 1 .30 says, But of him you

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are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom

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from God and righteousness and sanctification

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and redemption. So when you pray in tongues,

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you're praying in the Holy Ghost. You are praying

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with wisdom. The Bible says in Corinthians, we

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speak the wisdom of God, In a mystery. So when

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you're praying in the Holy Ghost about a decision

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that you need to make, you're praying the wisdom

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of God. You're praying God's solution to what

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you're asking him about. You're praying God's

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answer to what you need an answer for. You are

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praying the wisdom of God and you're in your

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right standing and redemption. In 2 Corinthians

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2 .14. It says, now thanks be to God who always

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leads us to triumph in Christ and through us

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diffuses the fragrance of his knowledge in every

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place. So when you're praying in the Holy Ghost,

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are you ready for this? I love this. You are

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praying from a place of victory and triumph.

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Victory and triumph. You don't have to doubt.

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You don't have to worry. You don't have to fret

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about anything. When you're praying in the Holy

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Ghost, you're praying from a place of victory

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and triumph. Well, Margie, I don't feel, I don't

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feel. It has nothing to do with feelings. Your

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mind is unproductive. Your soul is not involved.

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It's your spirit by the Holy Spirit within you

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praying in your right standing with God, the

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perfect prayer before the throne room of grace.

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Here's another one. 2 Corinthians 5, 19 through

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21, God was in Christ reconciling the world to

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himself, not imputing their trespasses to them

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and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

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Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ as though

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God were pleading through us. We implore you

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on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. So

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when you're praying in the Holy Ghost, You're

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standing as an ambassador for Jesus Christ, especially

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those of you that pray the prayer of intercession

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and you're stirring up your prayer language.

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You are an ambassador for Christ. You're an intercessor.

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You're laying one hand on man, one hand on God,

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and you're praying according to the will of God

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for that particular prayer assignment. And you're

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praying because of and in his authority in this

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place of prayer. I don't have the book with me,

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but a friend of mine wrote a book called Seven

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Days with a Witch. His name's Don Allen. He wrote

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the book. And there was a high -level witch that

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got saved, high, high, high, high level, very

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high level. And she said that after her salvation,

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she began to expose the works of darkness. And

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she said one of the things she said in her book

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that really stuck out at me was she said, all

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the languages of this world we understand. But

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the one language we don't understand is when

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believers speak in their heavenly language, speak

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in other tongues. And she said that when they

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speak in tongues and they stir up this prayer

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language, she said it demolishes our works. It

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aborts some of our plans or it hinders what they

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want to do. Listen, why do you think the enemy

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does not want us to pray in the Holy Ghost? Why

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do you think some of these seeker -friendly churches

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don't want people expressing themselves before

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God in the Spirit? because, my friends, it destroys

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the works of darkness, and it hinders the work

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of God. When we pray in tongues, we pray in the

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Holy Ghost, we're accelerating the mind, the

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will, and the purpose of God in the earth, okay?

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Ephesians 1 .3 says, Blessed be the God and Father

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of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us

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with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly

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places in Christ. So when you pray in tongues,

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you are praying from a place of being blessed.

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I like that. Ephesians 2, 6 says, God has raised

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us up together and made us sit together in heavenly

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places. So in the spirit and... And legally,

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positionally, we're on this earth, but we are

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in the world. We're not of the world. But when

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you are in Christ, positionally, we sit together

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with him in heavenly places. So I like to say

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it like this. When you pray in tongues, you pray

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in the Holy Ghost, you're praying from heaven's

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perspective. The Lord spoke to me one day. He

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said, Marty, many of my people desire to be intimate

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with me. They desire to spend time with me. They

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desire to have a vibrant prayer life, but they

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just don't know where to begin. They just don't

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know how to start. So I wrote this book with

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that in mind. Encountering God through prayer.

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Simple strategies to develop a powerful prayer

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life. I take the reader from the very basics.

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Begin where you are. Begin with 15 minutes. Find

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a quiet place in your house. Go into a closet

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if you have to. Shut the door. Just begin where

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you are. And I teach the reader about the heart

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of the Father. Because if you don't know who

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God is, you're not going to understand his character

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and his nature, and you'll be afraid of him.

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So I go into the heart of the Father. Who is

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

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nature? And then I take the reader all the way

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up into what I call contemplative prayer. So

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if you would like a wonderful resource on how

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to begin your prayer life, I encourage you. I

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like that. When you pray in tongues. You pray

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in the Holy Ghost, you're praying from heaven's

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perspective. So if you have a prayer assignment,

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let's say you're trying to pray for your, you're

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not trying, you are praying for your child. And

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there's things you don't know that's going on

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in their life. The Holy Spirit knows. He searches

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the hearts. He knows what's going on. He sees

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things you don't see. And what he'll do is he'll

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show you at times things that are going on, right?

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So when you pray for your child, you're praying

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in the Holy Ghost and you're praying from heaven's

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perspective. And it causes things to work together,

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to come together. It causes people to come across

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their path. Things we pray out that we may not

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have even thought of. Okay, let's go on. When

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you're praying in tongues, the Bible says, First,

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let's say John 1, 4 says, in him was life. That

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word life is zoe. The zoe, life of God, is eternal

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life. Life as God has it. And the life was the

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light of men. So when you pray in tongues, remember,

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you're in Christ. When you pray in tongues, you

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are praying from a place. of eternity ecclesiastes

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3 says eternity is in your heart it's already

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in our heart so when you're praying in the spirit

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praying in the holy ghost you are praying this

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is so important from a place of eternity and

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there's no time no distance in eternity so you're

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praying out of that place your prayers are not

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bound by time you are praying in the realm of

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eternity You may even be praying for people you

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have not yet met and will be connected to in

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the future. You're praying into things that may

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have not yet manifested and you are praying according

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to his will. Really quick story. I feel impressed

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to share right now. When I first began ministry

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about 46 years ago, I knew I was called. I knew

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that the hand of God was on my life. And I just

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didn't know where I was going to go, what I was

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going to do. So all I prayed in English was,

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Lord, I pray, Father, that you just go before

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me and prepare the way. They told us at Rhema

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Bible Training College, they said, we don't want

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you staying in Tulsa. We did not have all you

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students come here for all of you to stay here.

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Pray about where God is going to send you. And

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so I took what they said and I said, Lord, I

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don't know where you're sending me. I don't know

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what you want me to do. I have no idea. Just

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go before me and prepare the way. And after I

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prayed that prayer, after I said all those things,

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after I did everything I knew to say in English,

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I just would walk the floor and I'd pray in tongues.

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I was single at the time and I just would spend

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weekends with God. And I sowed into the spirit.

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I sowed into my ministry. I sowed into the future.

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I sowed into things I didn't know with my mind

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and with my understanding. I spent five minutes.

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10 minutes, 15 minutes. And it was a discipline.

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Prayer is a discipline. And I'd spend 20 minutes,

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30 minutes. And I just walked the floors of where

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I lived. And I said, Lord, I thank you for going

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before me and preparing the way. Making, listen

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to this, the crooked way straight and the rough

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places plain. And I just prayed in the Holy Ghost,

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prayed an hour. Sometimes two hours, sometimes

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three hours. See, the beauty of praying in the

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Holy Ghost, and I'm not saying that to brag.

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I'm just saying it to teach you. The beauty of

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the Holy Ghost is your mind is unproductive.

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So you could pray in the Holy Ghost in your car

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while you're doing dishes, when you're vacuuming

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the floor, wherever you are, you could stir up

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the gift of God that is within you. And these

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effectual fervent prayers of you as a righteous

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person avail much. So I just would pray in tongues.

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Pray in the Holy Ghost, Lord, I don't know what

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you want me to do. I don't know. And I didn't

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get into fear. I just stayed in faith. And so

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a door opened for me in New Jersey on the East

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Coast. And I went there and I preached my first

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message. And it was on the Holy Ghost. And after

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that, I went home back to Tulsa. Father, go before

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me and prepare the way. Make the crooked ways

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straight. The rough places plain. I don't know

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what you want me to do, but you know. The beauty

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of God is he knows everything, past, present,

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and future. And when you're praying in the Holy

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Ghost, you're praying out the future. You're

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praying out what he knows. He knows what's going

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on, but you don't. And so I got a couple more

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speaking engagements on the East Coast. And when

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I would come go to the East Coast, I had just

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a sense, just hear me out here. Some things are

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better caught than taught. I had a sense I feel

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comfortable here. I feel or I sense or I discern

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like I'm home. And so that was really the guidance

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of the Holy Ghost saying, I've set before you

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an open door. No man can shut it. And I want

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you to go into this place and I've called you

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to be here. But I still was young. I was still

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discerning the voice of the Holy Spirit. And

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so eventually, after a while, one door led to

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another. I'd go to the East Coast, one door would

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open. It was quite phenomenal and amazing to

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me because I was like 21 years old. I was very

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young. I was new to ministry. And it was amazing

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to me because one pastor after another pastor

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after another pastor would call me and they would

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say, we would like you to come and do a conference

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or do a women's event. Or back in the day, we

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used to have three days of meetings and Holy

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Ghost moves at revival kind of meetings. And

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then I eventually moved to the East Coast because

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that was the plan of God for my life. And I followed

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the inward witness. But one day somebody came

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to me and they said to me, Margie, how did you

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get so many speaking engagements? How did that

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happen for you? Did you have business cards?

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Did you give your cards away? Did you promote

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yourself? And I said, no, I don't know how it

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happened. And one day I was talking to the Lord

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about it, like, how did that happen? And the

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Lord spoke to me. And he said to me, do you remember

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all those weekends and all that time you put

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into praying in the Holy Ghost, praying in the

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Spirit, walking the floors, just praying? out

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the will and the plan and my purposes. I said,

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yeah, I remember that. He said, you, he said,

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I was able to go before you, make the crooked

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ways straight. It caused alignment. The right

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people came across your path at the right time.

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That was you doing the work in the spirit first

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before you ever got there. So I love that. Okay,

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let's read one more and then we're going to go

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on. Ephesians 1, 4. says, he chose us in him

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before the foundation of the world that we should

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be holy and without blame in him in love. So

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when you're praying in the Holy Ghost, you are

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praying from a place of being chosen and one

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who is holy before him. And in that place of

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prayer, there is no condemnation. Lastly, Ephesians

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1, 7. It says, in him we have redemption through

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his blood, the forgiveness of sins according

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to the riches of his grace. When you are praying

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in tongues because you're in Christ, you are

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praying from being redeemed by his blood and

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forgiven by the riches of his grace. Okay, we're

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going to go ahead and we're going to move a little

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quicker. When we speak in tongues, we are speaking

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in tongues for spiritual edification. This is

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a big one. 1 Corinthians 14, 4 says, He who speaks

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in a tongue edifies himself. Sometimes I think

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it's important for us to break down the Hebrew

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and the Greek so it amplifies more of what God

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is saying in that particular verse. He who speaks

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in an unknown tongue edifies himself. That word

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edify in the Greek is more like the word charge.

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And it's used in connection with charging a battery.

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Therefore, we could paraphrase this verse. Are

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you ready? He that speaks in a tongue edifies,

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charges, builds himself up like a battery. It

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is not mental edification. It has nothing to

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do with the mind. As a matter of fact, times

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when I've been tired. times when I've experienced

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some warfare from the enemy, times when I've

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been maybe discouraged, we've all been discouraged,

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I just stand up and I walk the floors and I pray.

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Not mental edification, but the more I prayed

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in tongues, the more my inner man rose up. He

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rose up on the inside of me. Greater is he that's

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in you than he that's in the world. You're stirring

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yourself up on your most holy faith, praying

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in the Holy Ghost. I'm being stirred up. I'm

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being edified. I'm being charged up like a battery.

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So I have a phone here. There's times that...

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my phone your phone all of us happens we use

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our phone we're on the phone we're texting re

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-emailing all the things that we do on our phone

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and what happens the battery goes from five bars

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to four bars to three bars right now mine is

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on 98 okay that's pretty good but what happens

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when my phone gets really low And, you know,

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it's down really low, and I don't want it to

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die. What I do is I take a charger, I take a

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cord, I plug it in into the phone, and I plug

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it in to the power source. And as a result, what

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happens? My phone gets charged. It goes up one

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bar, then it goes up another bar, then three

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bars. Now, like I said, right now mine's at 98%.

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Okay? I want you to think about that in the light

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of this verse. He that speaks in an unknown tongue

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edifies himself. When you pray in the Holy Ghost,

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you're charging yourself up. The Bible says,

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building yourself up, Jude, on your most holy

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faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. You're not

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building your faith because faith only comes

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by hearing and hearing by the word of God. But

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in your spirit, You're charging yourself up.

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You're edifying yourself. This is one way when

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I teach how to stand strong in challenging times.

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I tell people, you've got to edify yourself.

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Put the word of God in your heart. Yes, the spirit

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and the word, they agree. But charge yourself

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up by praying in the Holy Ghost. And I think

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we need to return to praying in tongues, the

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power and the purpose of praying in tongues,

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okay? Lastly, praying in tongues or tongues is

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a way to worship God in the spirit. Acts 2 .11

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says, they heard them speaking in tongues. Remember,

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we're going right back to the beginning. The

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wonderful works of God. Acts 10 .47, they heard

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them speak with tongues and magnify God. Okay,

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I'm gonna go ahead and I wanted to take some

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time and I wanna pray with you. If you've never

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received the Holy Spirit since you believed,

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I want you just to get quiet before God. And

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say this with me. Say, Heavenly Father, I believe

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that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. I believe

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that he died on the cross for me. And today I

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accept him as my personal Lord and Savior. And

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now, Lord, I'm asking you, I'm asking you, you

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said in your word, everyone who asks receives.

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I'm asking you. to baptize me in the Holy Ghost.

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Holy Ghost, come upon me. Holy Ghost, rise up

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inside me. And I will, I will begin to speak

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with tongues as a spirit. There he is. I can

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sense his presence. Go ahead and release your

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prayer language. Go ahead. Go ahead. Just release

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your prayer language. Praise God. Well, I look

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forward to hearing from you. If you've received

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Jesus or you spoke in tongues for the first time,

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The website is on the screen. Go ahead and contact

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us. Yvette has written an amazing book called

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What Just Happened. Thank you for listening and

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God bless you and have a beautiful rest of your

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day. 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. Does it return void? It produces

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results. My book, Contend, Stewarding the Hearts

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and Destinies of Our Children Through Prayer,

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is one of my most favorite projects thus far.

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In this book, I teach the reader how to pray

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effectively for their children, their grandchildren,

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and the rising generations that are in the earth

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today. Make no mistake about it. There is war

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over the hearts and the destinies of our children.

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And this book will equip you as to how to pray

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effectively for those young people. In this book,

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I teach you about the power and the purpose of

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praying in tongues. I show you what a prayer

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alert looks like. There are sample prayers. Not

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only that, there are outlines at the end of each

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chapter. So if you run a Bible study, you can

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use 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

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on today's topic, please visit our website at

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margieflorant .org.