Prayer Alerts for Your Children Part 1

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The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

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God will put the prayer in your heart to pray so that he can answer it.

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It goes into the hearts of the people, doesn't return void, it produces results.

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Amen.

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Okay, so we're going to go ahead and get started.

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I'm talking about prophetic prayer alerts, which goes along with our theme, prophetically

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praying parents, a call to action.

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And last week we launched from 1 Corinthians 14.

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I'm going to start there.

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I'm going to go right into our message.

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Okay, so how do we pray for our children?

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1 Corinthians 14, 15 says, what is the conclusion then?

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I will, I want you to notice the emphasis here is I will pray with the spirit.

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I will pray with the understanding also.

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And in regards to worship, he says I will sing with the spirit and I will also sing

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with the understanding also.

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Notice he said I will.

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So he wills to pray.

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He stirs himself up to take a hold of God.

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He sees a need and he, instead of just ignoring the need, he takes that need to the word of

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God.

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He agrees with the word of God and that's what he presents before the throne room of

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grace.

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He sees on the outward, he sees by the fruit of what is being said.

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In this case, what our kids are saying, because out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth

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speaks, we hear what they're saying.

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They may be speaking words of discouragement, words of fear, words of worry, words of lack.

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So we of course talk to them, of course we minister to them, but we can also take them

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into the place of prayer, find scriptures that meet their needs.

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So with our ears we know what they have need of.

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So also, you know, the Bible says you will know them by their fruit.

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So maybe you see the fruit of rebellion or the fruit of that they're depressed, they

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may not even be saying, or the fruit that they're unusually distracted, or the fruit

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that their bedroom is more messy than usual, whereas before they were always a very neat

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person.

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So they have the fruit of a change in their behavior.

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So what do we do?

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I will pray.

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I will take that need to the Word of God.

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I will agree with the Word of God, and that's what I will present before the throne room

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of grace.

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Prayer opens up the door for God to work.

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We have not because we ask not.

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When we pray, the enemy must flee.

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When we pray, the Holy Spirit has an avenue in which to work.

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When we pray, strongholds are challenged and ultimately come down.

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And it's the power of a prophetic praying parent.

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And that's what the devil fears, my friends.

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He fears you taking your place.

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He fears you doing your job as a parent, and that is to not only raise your children in

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the natural, but to raise them and support them in the Spirit and specifically in the

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place of prayer.

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So we say, I will pray.

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Again, I'm going to repeat this.

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We don't want to pray the problem over and over and over.

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We want to pray the answer.

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God knows the problem.

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He knows what things that our children have need of before we even ask.

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He knows the problem.

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But what we want to pray is the answer.

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What is the answer?

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The answer is the Word of the living God, and the Word of God has the answer for every

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problem that our children face.

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So we don't want to pray the problem.

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We don't want to pray worry prayers.

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We don't want to pray prayers laced in fear, because fear and faith are extreme opposites.

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But when you mix your prayers with faith, the effectional, fervent prayer of a righteous

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man avails much.

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Amplified says dynamic, and it's working.

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So when you pray for your children, know that God hears you when you pray.

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I'm hearing in my spirit, because there's an anointing on me just from the second I

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started.

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God said, I am not lack concerning my promises.

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But all his promises for your children are yes and amen.

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But you have an adversary, the devil, who goes about as a roaring lion seeking whom

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he may devour, and he wants to devour them.

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He wants to steal from them.

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He wants to kill them.

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He wants to destroy their purpose and your destiny.

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But as we as parents rise up and take our place and stand in the gap as intercessors

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on the behalf of our children, the enemy must flee.

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The Bible says, resist the devil and he will flee from you.

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Amplified says, as one in terror.

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The devil is terrorized of prophetically praying parents.

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He is terrorized that you decided that you're not going to allow your children to go to

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the dark side.

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He is terrorized that you've made a decision that you're going to listen to this Facebook

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live or the replay of this teaching.

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He is terrorized that this word is going forth.

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And that's what I love about the Holy Spirit.

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I had warfare going into this particular subject, and I don't really care anymore.

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I'm old enough to know it's the devil and I'm on the right path.

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But what the enemy fears is that you're going to take your place.

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He doesn't want you to take your place.

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And what I love about the Holy Spirit, he anoints us with fresh oil because the anointing

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is on this word.

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Okay?

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So that's why he's here with us.

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So we're emphasizing that I will pray with the Spirit, but there are times, and this

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is what we're going to talk about tonight or today, wherever you are in the world, we

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have people that listen to these lives from all over the world and listen to this podcast

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from all over the world.

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There are times when you may not see anything in the natural, nothing on the outward.

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Nothing is going on in the outward.

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But the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit searches all things.

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He knows the deep things of God.

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He knows what's going on on the inside of your children.

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And this is the time where I call prayer alerts, where the Holy Spirit steps in and he gives

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you what I call a prayer burden or a prayer alert.

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It is something that you receive from the heart of the Father, from the Holy Spirit.

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That's something on the inside that is hard to even explain, but I'm going to explain

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it tonight.

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Some things, remember, are better caught than taught.

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So I'm teaching you, but you're also going to catch it in the name of Jesus, okay?

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So what about the times when you get what I call a prayer burden, a prayer alert?

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So it's not the I will.

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It's not the I am going to pray, I'm willing to do it.

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It's something on the inside that says alert, alert, alert, and therefore you make a decision

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and say, all right, I'm going to respond to this prayer alert and now I am going to pray

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because the Holy Spirit is alerting me that there's something going on with one of my

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children.

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I actually had it happen to one of my God children last week and it came to me in a

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dream and we're going to talk about the different ways they manifest.

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It came to me in a dream and most dreams are symbolic.

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I'm not a dream, I shouldn't say I'm not a dream interpreter, but it's really not

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my forte to be a dream interpreter, but I have learned some things about dream interpretation

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from my friend Gary and some other friends of mine who are really good at dream interpretation.

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But I had a dream about one of my God children.

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I've known her since she was a young girl.

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I can't remember how old she was.

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I'm going to ask her to text me and tell me how long we've known each other.

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Little girl.

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And I had a dream about her and she recently lost her father, which is completely devastating

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to all of us and to her and her mother and her family.

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And I don't know how long ago, I think it was about three or four months ago.

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And I had a dream about her last week and in the dream her and I were walking together

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and I had to go my way, she had to go her way, but she turned around and she went into

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the presence of a counselor and she began to tell the counselor that she missed her

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daddy and she missed her daddy so much and that she was really hurting and she was crying

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and she was in pain.

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And I woke up, I was literally startled and woke up and when I woke up, now this is a

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prayer alert, when I woke up, I had her on my heart, I identified with her.

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That's what happens sometimes in intercession and when you at times get these prayer alerts,

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you have a sense of identification.

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You know the Bible says, weep with those who weep, mourn with those who mourn, you know,

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it's an identification.

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I don't recall the scripture right now because I wasn't planning on sharing this part, but

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when I woke up, I felt her pain, I felt her heart and it was so real to me, more real

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than anything at that moment.

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And so I prayed for her and I reached out to her as well as prayed for her, I definitely

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prayed for her.

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And I just said to her, are you okay honey and I had a dream about you and she says,

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yes, I've been missing my daddy more and more, I still can't believe he's gone.

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I said, I honestly can't believe it either.

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The devil robbed him and took that precious man from his family, it's so upsetting.

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And so what was that?

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There was a prayer alert, there was a prayer burden and how did it come?

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It came to me in a dream and see because I have a relationship with her as my God child,

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God was able to alert me because he knew that I would pray for her.

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So let me just say this, in regards to prayer alerts as we get into them, I remember when

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I first began to learn how to pray, my friend Gail Buse, who I was just with these last

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few days in Florida, she's actually the one that taught me how to pray.

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She was raised in an assembly of God girl her whole life and I was born again about

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two months, maybe six months before I ever met her at Ramah and we found each other by

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the Spirit and we became roommates.

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And I remember she used to go into her closet, her bedroom closet, she used to go into the

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closet and she used to pray and cry and groan and travail and intercede, it was a true intercession.

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And so I learned by example, wow, that's a good idea, you know, the Bible says, and when

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you pray, go into your closet and shut the door.

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So I just, I followed her example and I just followed what the Bible says.

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Actually that word closet means a secret chamber, a private place.

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And so I would go into my closet and I didn't understand what I'm going to teach you.

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I didn't understand that the Holy Spirit could lead me and guide me in prayer, in my prayer

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closet.

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I didn't know that the Holy Spirit could be majorly active and involved in my prayer time.

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And so I would go into my prayer closet and I would go in with a list.

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And the first thing I had on my list was according to 1st or 2nd Timothy where it says, praying

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first of all for all those that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life

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and all godliness and honesty.

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And you know the rest of the scripture because this is good and acceptable in the sight of

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God.

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And so what I would first have on my, first thing I would have on my list, I had a list,

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a real list, I would have, first I'm going to pray for the President of the United States.

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Okay?

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Second, I'm going to pray for whoever I had on my list at the time.

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I just always had a list and I'd go into prayer.

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And I'd go through each thing, each particular need and I would pray for them.

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And then one day the Lord said to me, it was in my prayer closet, and the Lord said to

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me, He said, Margie, He said, I want you to begin to be led by my spirit in the place

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of prayer just like you're learning to be led by my spirit in your everyday life.

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He said to me, because there's things that are hidden that I want to reveal to you and

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if you just stay in your head, which is fine, pray the list, but if there's times He wants

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to lead us and guide us by our spirits, the heart of the King is in the hand of the Lord,

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He wants to turn our hearts toward a need that we may not have any natural knowledge

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of.

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And so the journey began.

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In my prayer closet, yes, it's okay to have a list, but also to wait on the Lord, to gently

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pray in the Spirit, to look on the inside, to listen to Him and say, Lord, is there anything

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else that you need me to pray for?

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And so that's how we develop the listening ear, so to speak.

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And what I always taught my Bible school students and I'm teaching now in a small group is it's

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very important for those of us as believers and those of you that are listening to learn

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to be God-inside minded, whereas you look on the inside of you, they that are led by

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the Spirit are the sons of God.

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For example, with my children, and please if you could share this on your wall, I would

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greatly appreciate it.

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For example, with my children, every once in a while throughout the day, what I do is

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I look on the inside and I don't know how to explain it.

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I look around as a watchman in my own house and on the walls of my own family and I look

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around and I go, is everybody okay?

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And I look for a prayer alert.

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I look for a prayer assignment.

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I look to see if there's something that I need to know about as a prophetically praying

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parent.

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Okay, I actually talk about that in the last chapter of my book, Marked for Intercession,

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is there a watchman in the house?

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And so it's important for us to develop the fact that the Holy Spirit lives on the inside

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of us because that's where these prayer alerts come.

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That's where we're jolted.

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That's where we have this love.

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That's where we receive the things of the Spirit.

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They that are led by the Spirit.

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It is Spirit to Spirit.

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It is your Spirit by the Holy Spirit, connected with the Holy Spirit, who knows all things

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imparting unto you, imparting unto me, a burden, an alert, an assignment in regards of our

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children or the children that are in our sphere of influence.

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Let me give you an example and I'll get specific and teach you exactly how this works.

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I was doing a Facebook, and no it wasn't a Facebook, what am I saying?

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Years ago the Lord told me I want you to develop some timeless videos called Necessary Truths

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in Challenging Times.

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I worked with an amazing man, Rob Herna, and we developed 24 lessons.

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They're all basic foundational truths.

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I really did them for this next generation because I realized that this next generation

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does not know the simple things of God, who they are in Christ, authority of the believer,

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and so on and so forth.

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And so I was teaching these videos and it was a course of several weeks.

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And one time after I was done teaching, I took off, I shut off the mic and I was teaching

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them in my living room.

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My living room was my studio and we called it cut or whatever Rob would call it, we were

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done.

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And I went from my living room into my foyer to get a drink of water and when I was going

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through my foyer I looked at one of the pictures that was on that table.

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Now you know how it is in your foyer, you know you have all these pictures in your foyer

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of all your family and the kids, some of you have grandkids and nieces and nephews and

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you have their pictures like in strategic locations that everyone will see.

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So I had all these pictures on my foyer.

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But when I looked at this one of my children, okay, my daughter Jacqueline, it was like

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the picture lit up and it was like a light was shined on the picture.

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Now there wasn't in the natural a light that shined on it.

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What that light was, now hear me, that light and that sense of brilliance was really a

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prayer alert, a prayer assignment.

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And God was alerting me that something is going on with Jacqueline and with that picture

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lighting up so to speak, something on the inside jumped.

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And I have tried to the best of my ability, I am still learning to develop my spirit man

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because you can develop your spirit just like you can develop your body and you can develop

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your mind.

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So I have tried to the best of my ability to develop my spirit and I knew enough to

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know that something is going on with her.

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Now you would say, well, Margie, do you know what it was?

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Well, I didn't know what it was.

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You know, the Bible says, my friends, that we know in part, we prophesy in part.

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So we don't know everything.

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We see, the Bible says, through a glass darkly.

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So when that happened to me, hindsight is 20-20, I realize now that God was giving me

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a word of knowledge for my daughter.

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That's prophetic.

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A word of knowledge.

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And I am going to explain this to you in a minute.

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And I don't care how long tonight takes because I am not going to be on next week.

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I am doing an interview with Michael Fram.

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So I am not going to be on next week.

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But I am going to complete this assignment in totality.

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So that was a word of knowledge.

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So God was revealing to me that something was going on with Jacqueline.

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And with that lighting up of the picture, with that jump in my spirit, what also came

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with it was a grieving in my spirit.

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I was grieved.

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Like something is going on and something is not right.

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Okay?

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So what did you do with it?

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Well, I received a prayer alert.

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It wasn't like, I will pray.

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It was like, I need to pray because God just spoke to me about my daughter.

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So in the process of the next few days, I went into intercession for her.

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I didn't know what to pray.

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I prayed the scriptures that I have been sharing with you all these last few weeks.

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And I didn't know what to pray.

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I quoted scripture over her, proclaimed all the promises of God.

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And then I just began to pray in the Holy Ghost.

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He that searches the heart knows what is the mind of the spirit.

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He knows what is going on in Jacqueline.

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He knows what is going on in her environment.

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He knows her need.

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He knows how to get the job done.

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When you speak in an unknown tongue, you don't speak to people.

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You're speaking directly to God and He understands you.

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You are praying the perfect will of God.

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You're praying out of your right standing in Christ.

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You're praying like exactly what needs to be prayed in for that moment and in that time.

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It's like those of you that have ever played darts.

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It's like you're taking that dart, you're shooting that dart and you're hitting center

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right on, right smack in the middle.

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You're not praying your own will.

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You're not praying witchcraft prayers.

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You're praying the will of God on the behalf of your child.

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And so I yielded over to the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of grace and supplication.

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And I prayed and I interceded and I prayed until I got a release.

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Okay?

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So that's intercession.

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Okay?

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So when she came home from college a couple of weeks later, because of the kind of relationship

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I have with her, I said to her, I said, Jacqueline, I want to talk to you.

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Can we just talk, you know, outside on the deck?

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So we went outside.

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I sat down.

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She sat down.

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I said, Jacqueline, I said, I had a prayer assignment for you.

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I said, I don't know what's going on, but I just want you to know that I had a prayer

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assignment for you and I just want to know, you don't have to tell me, but is everything

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okay?

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Oh yeah, Mommy.

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Yeah, Mommy.

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You know how they do.

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Yeah, Mommy.

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Everything's fine.

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Everything's fine.

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That's why you can't look at the outward appearance.

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You got to be led by your spirit.

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You got to look on the inside of you.

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Let the Lord reveal to you.

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Yeah, Mommy.

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Everything's okay, Mommy.

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Everything's okay.

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You know, everything's okay.

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All right?

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I said, Jacqueline, I don't know what it is, but I can sense in my heart that something's

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not right.

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Okay?

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And all of a sudden, because prayer opens up the door for God to work, I believe the

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Holy Spirit not only caused her to be safe because of my prayers, I believe that the

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conviction of the Holy Spirit began to manifest on her and the Holy Spirit was convicting

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her and because my daughter trusts me and we have an open relationship, she knows she

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can tell me anything and I won't judge her, she broke down, she started crying because

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she's got a very tender heart.

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She told me everything that was going on and it was a pretty serious situation, okay?

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And thank God for the Holy Ghost.

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Thank God that he alerted me.

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Thank God that I responded.

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So responding to prayer burdens.

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I'm going to read a paragraph out of my book, Contend, Stewarding the Hearts and Destiny

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of Our Children Through Prayer because the way I wrote it is the perfect way to say it

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to you.

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As intercessors, an important part of our role is knowing how to recognize and respond

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to prayer burdens for our children.

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If we are paying attention, that's why it's important to be God-inside minded, to learn

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how to be led by your spirit.

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If we are paying attention, it is often easy to discern when our children are struggling.

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These struggles become a target of our prayers.

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However, at times the struggle will be hidden beneath the surface or the prayer need will

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relate to an attack against our children that we cannot see in the natural, okay?

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Did I say that?

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Yes, I said that.

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That's why this is prophetically praying parents.

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At these times, the Holy Spirit wants to alert us of the need so that we can intercede before

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we see the need for it in the natural.

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Do you see what I just said?

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Do you want me to repeat that?

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At these times, the Holy Spirit wants to alert us of the needs so that we can intercede before

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we see the need for it in the natural.

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I call this sort of alert by prayer burden.

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Many times we do not know why the burden has come.

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Thank you, Lord.

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There's some of you that are listening right now and I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying

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that he is giving you a prayer burden and a prayer alert right now as you hear my voice.

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Now when you hear my voice, don't harden your heart and don't be tossed to and fro in unbelief.

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You are hearing the voice of the good shepherd and the voice of your good shepherd you know

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and you will follow.

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You are getting a prayer alert or a prayer burden for someone, your child or some child

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in your spirit of influence.

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And the Holy Spirit of God is saying tonight, he wants you to, when you get the time tomorrow

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or today, whenever the time is right, he wants you to yield over to him, present that child,

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that person before the throne of God and lift that person up because it could be a matter

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of life and death.

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So it's important for you to yield to that prayer burden.

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For some it's not that serious, life or death.

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For others it could be.

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So God just is saying you're being assigned as you hear the word of teaching tonight.

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Many times we do not know why the burden has come, but the Spirit knows and we can trust

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him to guide us in our prayers so that we can release protection over our children in

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the Spirit.

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Remember, I said to you that we're absent from them in the flesh, meaning in the natural,

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they're not always with us, yet we're present with them as watchmen in our own households

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in the Spirit.

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Okay, Jesus promised that the Spirit of truth would guide you into all truth and tell you

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what is yet to come.

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God wants to give us the inside scoop on what's happening with our kids so that we can pray

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on their behalf.

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I'm going to give you another story and then I'm going to break it down.

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I always tried to make it a policy of mine that no matter how tired I was, before the

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kids went to sleep I would go in each and every one of their rooms and I would pray

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over them.

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And one night I went into Danielle's room and I laid hands on her to pray over her.

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I prayed the word and then I prayed in the Spirit.

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And while I was praying in the Spirit, okay, I saw something.

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And now you may say, well, how do you explain how you saw it?

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Where I saw it, and again, you're going to catch this, where I saw it was on the inside

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of me.

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And because I've taught myself to look on the inside of me and not always be moved by

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the outward, I saw I just looked on the inside and I saw on the inside of me, I saw fiery

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darks coming at her mind, one after the other, after another, after another, after another,

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after another, after another.

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And I didn't know what those fiery darks were.

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I had absolutely 100% no clue what they were.

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And so what I did was I just prayed over her, I bound the devil, but it needed more than,

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you know, she needed some intercession.

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And to be honest with you, she not only needed intercession, she also needed me to teach

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her how to resist the fiery darks of the enemy, which is spoken of in Ephesians chapter 6,

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verse 16.

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The Bible talks about and quench all the fiery darks of the wicked one.

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What those fiery darks were, that were coming against her mind was spiritual warfare, thoughts,

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you know, things that were coming against her mind.

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It's like I teach the young people today, not all your thoughts are your thoughts, and

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even adults, we need to remember that.

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And so those fiery darks were coming.

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And so what I have to say, I really wish I had taught her about that at a young age and

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that she would have been able to resist on her own.

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But I went into prayer and I took authority over it.

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And then when she graduated from college, she later on told me what it was that she

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was dealing with.

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And so I thank God.

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You know, we're not perfect parents.

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Remember we said that, but we can be praying parents.

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And for those of us that haven't always been perfect, for those of us that haven't always

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prayed for our kids, listen, we can pick up right here, right now and go in and we can

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pray for our kids.

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And you know, I'm going to tell you something, my friends, God will redeem the time.

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

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It has been such a joy sharing this time with you for more inspiration and resources on

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today's topic.

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Please visit our website at margieflaron.org.