CTN TV Episode 13 House of prayer 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. When God says something 33 times, you

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better believe he's trying to get your attention.

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John Wesley once said, it seems like God is limited

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by our prayer life, that he cannot do nothing

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for humanity unless someone asks him. Why? I'm

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going to say something, and I've had multiple

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times where I could feel people putting on the

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brakes, but I'm going to prove it to you in the

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scripture. God is not running everything in this

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world. He does not have anything under control.

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Everything under control. Can I re -say it? God

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is not running everything in this world. He does

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not have everything under control. Prayer is

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necessary because Man is God's avenue into the

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world. Therefore, it is necessary that you ask.

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Let's go to Genesis 1. I didn't feel like doing

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the copy and paste, so I brought my Bible, and

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I'm going to read it from my Bible. How many

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of you have Bibles? Let's start reading here

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at verse 26, Genesis chapter 1. Genesis 1, 26.

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Then God said, everyone say God said. Let us,

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the Trinity, make man in our image. According

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to our likeness, let them have dominion over

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the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and

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over the cattle, and all the earth, and over

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every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

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So God created man in his own image. In the image

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of God, he created him. Male and female, he created

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them. Then God blessed them and said to them,

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be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and

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subdue it. Have dominion. Over the fish of the

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sea, over the birds of the air, and over every

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living thing that moves upon the earth. That

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word dominion is rada. Have dominion. That word

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means to tread, to rule, to have dominion, to

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dominate. The English definition is to rule or

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to have authority. He didn't say, God didn't

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say, I'm going to dominate you. Adam originally,

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this is a very important foundation. Adam originally

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had dominion upon this earth and in the world.

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In a sense, Adam was the god of this world. But

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Satan came and lied to Adam, and Adam committed

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high treason and sold out to Satan. He gave the

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dominion and the authority to Satan. Here's scripture

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to prove it. Everybody say the foundation. The

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word of God. Luke 4, 6, and the devil said to

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Jesus, this was the temptation, all this authority

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I will give you. And that was, do you know, that

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was the easy road. You know, there is an easy

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road, and then there's the hard, then there's

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the road. That God's called us to really walk

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on. Be careful you don't take the easy road.

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Sometimes the harder road's a harder road because

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it is the harder road. And the easy road doesn't

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lead you on your path and into your destiny.

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The easy road takes you off your path. And you

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will... You don't want that. I will give you

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and their glory for, what did he say here in

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Luke 4, 6? For this has been delivered to me.

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And I give it to whoever I wish. Now, you know

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this. This was a real temptation. So it was a

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definite, real thing. It was a fact. 2 Corinthians

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4, 3 and 4, if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled

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to those who are perishing. Who? The mind. The

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who? The God of this age has blinded who do not

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believe. He's the God of this age. Are you afraid

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of him? The Bible says, greater is he that is

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in you and I than he that is in the world. We

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are in the world. We are not of the world. In

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the world, we will have tribulation, but be of

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good cheer. Jesus said, I have overcome the world,

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and I am on the inside of you. Are you going

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to get warfare? Are you going to get tested and

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tried and all kinds of stuff? Absolutely, 100%.

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But you've got to plow through the warfare. And

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just know that the greater one is in you. Do

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you know that when you go to a new level, there's

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a new devil? 1 John 5, 19, here's another one.

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In the mouth of two or three, right? We know

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that we are of God and the whole world lies under

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the sway of the wicked one. Now, we have been

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given the authority by Jesus. What was lost,

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listen. in Adam was restored in the death, burial,

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and resurrection of Jesus Christ. That's why

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Jesus said to you and I, Matthew 28, 18, and

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20, Jesus came and he spoke saying, all authority

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has been given to me in heaven and in earth.

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And then he said to his disciples, now you...

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go therefore and in my name and he said cast

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out devils heal the sick so on and so forth so

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you and i are as christ in the earth when we

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use his name the bible says whatever you ask

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or demand in my name that word demand is it's

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not ask it's demanded my name the amplify said

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i will be there to back it up My book, Contend,

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Stewarding the Hearts and Destinies of Our Children

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Through Prayer, is one of my most favorite projects

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thus far. In this book, I teach the reader how

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to pray effectively for their children, their

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grandchildren, and the rising generations that

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are in the earth today. Make no mistake about

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it. There is war over the hearts and the destinies

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of our children. And this book will equip you

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as to how to pray effectively for those young

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people. In this book, I teach you about the power

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and the purpose of praying in tongues. I show

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you what a prayer alert looks like. There are

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sample prayers. Not only that, there are outlines

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at the end of each chapter. So if you run a Bible

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study, you can use this book as a springboard

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to teach others how to pray for their children.

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Go to my website at margieflorent .org and pick

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up your own copy. 1 Corinthians, I had this,

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I added this to my notes because it came to me

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in my spirit this morning. 1 Corinthians 2, verse

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8. Listen, if they had known, what was going

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to happen? When Jesus, if they had known the

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mystery, if they had understood the plan of redemption,

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if they had understood that Jesus was the second

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Adam and he was going to come to give us authority

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and dominion over this earth and that whatever

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we bind on earth is bound in heaven, that we

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would have the authority to use his name to speak

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the word, to declare the word of God and the

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enemy must flee. If he had known that. He would

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have never crucified the Lord of glory. Would

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have never done it. But the devil played right

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into the hand and the plan of redemption. And

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you know what I love about the plan of redemption?

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He used a bunch of people who are just like you

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and I. Regular people with issues. personality

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stuff, all kinds of stuff. He got his whole plan

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fulfilled by using all the people through all

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that time, and here we are today. And I believe

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that the glory of this latter house is going

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to be greater than the former. I believe that

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we're coming into another major move of God,

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that we are coming in. We thought we were there

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30 years ago, and we pioneered it, and we prayed,

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and we believed, but I believe that God God has

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a secret plan that we don't know of. That's why

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he can't tell us everything. He's got to leave

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some secret things a secret, even to the prophets,

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because if they open their mouth and tell the

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secrets, it's going to mess things up. I live

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for this. I live for seeing another move of God.

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I live to see, I believe we're going to live

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to see the power of gifts and manifestation.

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God's actually been telling us lately. The power

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of gifts. But you've got to covet them, desire

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them, long for them. Just like you covet to prophesy,

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covet that does working of miracles, gifts of

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healings, and the gift of faith would be in manifestation.

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If you ever read Catherine Coleman's books, your

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heart would break. And that's what we need. We

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need to have tears like Jeremiah had in Jeremiah

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9. He said, oh, that my head were like waters

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and my eyes a fountain of tears that I would

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weep for the slain daughter of my people. We've

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got to literally begin to see the way God sees.

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Catherine Coleman's books, people were, they

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were. terminal and had cancer and were in pain

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and hurting, and they'd attend her meetings,

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and guess what? Nobody touched them. Nobody laid

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hands on them. The power of God, the power of

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the Most High would overshadow them. He would

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come upon them, and He would just begin to heal

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their bodies. Nobody got the glory. The only

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person that got the glory was Jesus. So that's

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where we're headed. If they had known, they would

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have never crucified the Lord of glory. Ian Bounds

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said, The Lord spoke to me one day. He said,

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Margie, 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 god

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is you're not going to understand his character

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and his nature and you'll be afraid of him so

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i go into the heart of the father who is the

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father what's his character what's his nature

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and then i take the reader all the way up in

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to what I call contemplative prayer. So if you

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would like a wonderful resource on how to begin

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your prayer life, I encourage you to get this

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book, Encountering God Through Prayer. Go to

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my website at margieflaurent .org. If prayer

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puts God to work on earth, Then by the same token,

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prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs

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and prevents him from working. So you have to

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ask. I'm going to quote some scriptures and I'm

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going to do it. And now you know what's interesting

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about this? God gave me this message in the height

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of the grace movement. Is everybody okay with

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me saying that? Does anybody know what the grace

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movement is? will be will be I'm under the law

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I'm not under the law but grace so que sera sera

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a passive gospel I get it. Jesus did it all.

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He did the work. But man is still God's avenue

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into the earth. We have not because we ask not.

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Prayer opens up the door for God to work. I've

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given you authority and power, and every place

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the sole of your foot treads upon, I've given

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it to you. But the righteous got to go in and

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take it by force. This friend of mine said he

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was a ministry peer. Very annoying. Easter, you

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know who he is. I'll whisper it in your ear later.

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This is not gossip. It's error. We had been pioneering

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since 1981 for a prayer movement in this region.

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He gets up in a, I don't know, I guess you would

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say at the time a mega church, and he had a platform.

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And he literally said, I don't pray anymore.

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Everything I have is by God's grace. I delight

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myself in the Lord. You're so selfish. It's all

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about you, isn't it? I delight, I just had to

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say that. I delight myself in the Lord and he

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gives me the desires of my heart. Well, what

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about, and if some have compassion and others

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saved with fear, pulling them out of the fire,

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hating even the garments spotted by the flesh.

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What about that? Pulling people out of hell,

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using your authority, using the prayers of the

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saints, which are righteous prayers of the saints,

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which has a powerful effect. I got him on the

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phone. It wasn't pretty. And I'm very... like

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secure now. More than, I mean, I'm secure. Back

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then, I still had a little bit of, I don't know,

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whatever that is that you've got to grow out

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of if you're going to grow into your gift and

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be everything God's called you to be. And I just

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said to him, I can't believe you just said that.

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You just literally uprooted so much of our work

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that we've been doing in this region by saying

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that. Anyway, that was my rant. Oh, my goodness.

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Matthew 6, 8. Therefore, do not be like them,

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for your father knows what things you have need

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of before you. Ask him. Matthew 7, 11. If you

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then, being evil, that's really natural parents,

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know how to give good gifts to your children,

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how much more will your Father who is in heaven

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give good things to those who what? Ask him.

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Matthew 18. Again, I say to you, if two of you

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shall agree on earth concerning anything, they

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what? They ask. It shall be done by my Father

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which is in heaven. John 14, 13. And whatever

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you... Ask in my name, that I will do, that the

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Father may be glorified in the Son. That word

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ask, like we said, is actually demand. John 15,

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16, you did not choose me, but I chose you and

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appointed you that you should go and bear fruit

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and that your fruit should remain and that whatever

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you want. Ask the Father in my name, he may give

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it you. James 4, 2, you have not because you

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ask not. Psalms 2, 8, ask for the heathen. Ask

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for the nations. Matthew 7, 7 and 8, ask and

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it will be given you. Ruth Bell Graham once said,

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God has decreed to act in response to prayer.

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Ask. He commands us and Satan trembles for fear

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that we will. Is your faith getting built up?

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I'm going to read you something. From a book

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called Unmasking the Devil, Strategies to Defeat

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Eternity's Greatest Enemy. John Ramirez. See,

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I'll tell you how I am. I'm a praying person.

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I want to understand the laws of the spirit.

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And when I find out that there's somebody like

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him exposing the laws of the enemy, And there's

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a scripture that he uses. I don't remember what

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the exact scripture is. I want to know what he

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learned so I can learn some things. It's just

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like tongues. Do you know that when you pray

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in tongues, the devil doesn't understand what

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you're saying? It completely confuses his plans

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and his purposes. That's a whole other message.

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So he said in his book, as a demonic high priest

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at night, I would leave my body and fly over

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neighborhoods. hurling taunts and curses down

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on the people who lived within their borders.

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Caught in the grip of strange dreams, I would

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feel myself being transported into different

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neighborhoods within the five boroughs of New

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York City. These out -of -body experiences called

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astral projection allowed me to have dominion

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over the communities. I felt diabolical, like

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a vampire, and I knew they had nothing on me.

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Sometimes I would even land and walk around the

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neighborhoods bringing curses, bad luck, and

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witchcraft aura. Let me just say this because

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I forgot to say it. It's very important that

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you understand he got born again, and then he

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was discipled under David Wilkerson. So he had

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that level of stability and somebody that was

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training him in the Word of God. Oddly, however,

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in some neighborhoods, I met with strong resistance

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and at first couldn't understand where the opposing

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power came from. In these neighborhoods, people

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were waiting for me to land. I prepared to curse

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the neighborhood, but when I landed, a mob would

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chase me for blocks and I couldn't curse them.

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Are you listening? Frustrated, I would fly off

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again, hoovering as high as the street lamps,

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and they would look up at me. Can you imagine

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what God could do with you people that are so

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prophetic around here and the things you're seeing

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and hearing and knowing? And you mix that with

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prayer? Finally, I realized these were nasty

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Christians praying for their neighborhoods. He

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said, I hated them the most. Wherever these praying

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Christians lived, I couldn't penetrate the neighborhood.

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So I would move on to the next neighborhood.

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We're almost done. Foundation number two, God

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hears you when you pray. He hears you. I didn't

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feel like he heard me. Doesn't matter. Get over

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it. He hears you. He's a faith God, not a feeling

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God. He doesn't operate in the sense realm. He

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operates in the spirit. Proverbs 15, 29, the

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Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the

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prayers of the righteous. 1 John 5, 14 and 15,

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now this is the confidence we have in him. Everyone

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say confidence. That if we ask anything according

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to his will, which is his word, what's the result?

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He hears us. And if we know he hears us, whatever

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we ask, then we know we have the petitions we

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desire of him. John 11, 42, I hope to get into

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this next week. When Jesus was at the tomb of

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Lazarus, he wept, he groaned in his spirit, and

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he was troubled. That was his prayer. And what

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did he say? He said, Father, I thank you that

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you hear me always when I pray. When's the only

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time he won't hear you? Do you know the answer

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to that? When's the only time God won't hear

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you? Psalm 66 says, if I regard iniquity in my

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heart, the Lord will not hear me. It's a wall.

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So something to be reminded of, the devil will

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always attack you where your gift is. So if you're

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a praying man or a praying woman, he'll try to

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get you offended. He'll try to get you hurt.

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I believe the devil even sends people to do some

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of that warfare to get you off your wall. You're

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a watchman on the wall, and he's trying to...

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push you off with rejection and hurt and all

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kinds of stuff. Just be as wise as a serpent,

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as harmless as a dove, and keep your armor on

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and watch your backside. Keep yourself clean

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and pure in the love of God. Number three. We're

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almost done. Third foundation. He answers you.

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Jeremiah 33 .3 says, call upon me. I'm going

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to answer you. And it may not look the way you

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think it's supposed to look. My thoughts are

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not your thoughts. My ways are not your ways.

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But you call upon me. I'm going to answer you

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and show you great and mighty things. Lastly,

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number four. And the Holy Ghost gave me this

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this morning because I didn't even have it. I

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didn't think of this. The Holy Ghost gave it

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to me. He said, stay in faith. See, people think,

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and I've seen this, and I've just thought about

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it. I don't always say everything I think. My

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friends know that. I just observe, and I wait.

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That's why you've got to wait. And the best way

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to teach people is to teach them, not correct

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them. Give them the Word of God. Sometimes we

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think, if I could just get... A million people

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to pray. My prayers will be answered. Well, God

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will hear the prayer of the righteous. The effectual

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prayer of a righteous man avails months. You've

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got to mix your prayers with faith. What is faith?

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Faith is a substance. It's a force in the spirit.

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It's a substance of two things. It's the substance

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of things hoped for. The evidence you don't see.

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So when you pray, in the realm of the Spirit,

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it's working. He hears you. He's answering you.

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You've just got to walk by faith and not by sight.

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You've got to hold fast the confession of your

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faith without wavering. Keep, like Brother Hagin

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used to say, when you walk into a room and it's

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a dark room, what do you do to get the light

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to come on? You turn the switch on. Right? Keep

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that switch of faith turned on. You've got to

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operate in faith. Okay. Let's stand. We're going

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to pray. And I'm going to turn this over to Pastor

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Tricia or Pastor David, whoever's in charge,

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at 830. Because that's what I do. I always obey

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the rules. Always. What we're going to do, can

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I have my, yeah, oh, perfect. We're going to

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demonstrate, I'm going to demonstrate prayer.

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We're going to ask God for a fresh, we're going

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to ask for a fresh rain of God's presence in

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our region. And then the Holy Ghost corrected

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me and he said, and in your families. And then

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when I looked it up, it said it right here. Let

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me just see which one. First, let's talk about

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the promise. What's the promise? Everyone say

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the promise. Here's the promise. Isaiah 44 .3.

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Put my post -it right on top of the scripture.

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Ooh, I could feel the Holy Ghost. Ooh, shakaya

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manaya. For I just hear the Lord saying, I'm

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going to anoint you with fresh oil. You're going

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to be a people that are called by my name, and

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as you humble yourself and stand before my throne

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room of grace, I'm going to hear from heaven,

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and I'm going to pour out upon you the working

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of miracles, the gift of faith, and the gifts

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of healings. For what the enemy has desired for

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the evil, I, the Lord, am going to turn it around,

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and you're going to see signs and wonders and

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miracles and manifestations of my spirit that

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you have longed for and that you have desired.

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So continue to seek me, continue to long for

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me, continue to inquire of me, and I will pour

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out of my spirit in a fresh new wave of signs

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and wonders and miracles. And the Lord said,

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that's going to take you by surprise because

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nobody's going to know what's happening, but

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I'm going to descend in the back and someone's

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going to be healed by my power and by my spirit.

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And then they're going to come to you and they're

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going to say, I had this wrong. and that wrong.

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And you're going to say, whoa, who did that?

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It was not by might. It was not by power, but

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it was by my spirit, says the Lord. Isaiah 44,

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3 says, for I will, I love this, I will. You

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know, God has a will. You think you have a strong

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