Prayer & Purpose | CTN Episode 10

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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. Your presence, Lord. We love, we love,

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we love, we love your presence. How we don't

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take it for granted, Lord, your presence. Your

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presence. Oh, by your spirit. Oh, by your spirit.

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In your presence. Because there's a lack of personal,

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intimate time alone with Jesus. And as leaders,

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you know, we have been pulling and encouraging

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and strengthening and preaching. And doing what

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God has called us to do. And we've done the best

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we can with what we've got. And the Holy Ghost

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is requiring more of his church, his body. And

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he's requiring them not to stand outside the

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tent door like the children of Israel did with

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Moses. When Moses will go into the presence of

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God and get the word of God and spend time in

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the presence of God. He's requiring his church

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and his body to begin to arise. and enter into

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that secret place of prayer so that he can begin

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to download some things into them that heretofore

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he hasn't been able to. I believe that there

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is a revival of a prayer movement. I believe

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that God wants to touch people fresh and anew.

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I believe that in a sense, the church as a whole

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is bored with religion as usual. That we've created

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our own form of having church. And any leader

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in here, and I know all of you, we all want a

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move of God. We all want what God wants. We all

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desire what God desires. real thing, the real

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deal. We want God. We don't want anything else.

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But it's going to take a fresh movement. It's

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going to take God arising within his church,

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Zechariah 12, 10, with the spirit of grace and

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supplication. But we've got to pray that people

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have a desire first to pray. It's the craziest

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thing I've ever heard in my life. I don't know

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about you, but I've never heard myself say it

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until about a month ago. And we had a prophetic

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prayer call, and that's what the Holy Ghost said.

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He said, take the lid off. I was like, what are

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you talking about? Were you on that prayer call?

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Incredible prayer call. He said, take the lid

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off. I said, what do you mean by that? What?

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What is this thing that I feel on the inside

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of me? See, I'm a prayer leader. So it can be

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kind of annoying sometimes. You can be seated.

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It can be kind of annoying sometimes. You can

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keep playing, Angel. It can be kind of annoying

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sometimes because you feel the heartbeat of God

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and you sense what he wants to do. And then on

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the other hand, the flip side, you sense what

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the church is experiencing. And it's trying to

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discern. How do you put that together? How do

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you have the mind of God? And how do you reach,

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speak accurately and not presumptuously? Are

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you listening to what I'm saying right now? And

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the Holy Ghost said to me about a month ago,

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he said, we need a revival of the prayer movement.

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I said, really? Are you kidding me right now?

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He said, it's like Hosea 10, 10 something. Break

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up the foul ground. It's time to seek the Lord.

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

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many of my people desire to be intimate with

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

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to have a vibrant prayer life, but they just

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

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how to start. So I wrote this book with that

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in mind. Encountering God through prayer. Simple

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strategies to develop a powerful prayer life.

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I take the reader from the very basics. Begin

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where you are. Begin with 15 minutes. Find a

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quiet place in your house. Go into a closet if

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you have to. Shut the door. Just begin where

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you are. And I teach the reader about the heart

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

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

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

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

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

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nature? And then I take the reader all the way

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up into what I call contemplative prayer. So

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if you would like a wonderful resource on how

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to begin your prayer life. I encourage you to

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get this book, Encountering God Through Prayer.

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Go to my website at margieflaurent .org. Google

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it. He said it's time to seek the Lord. Till

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what? Till he comes and rains righteousness upon

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us. But he's not going to come raining on anybody

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unless we start praying. Come on. Listen to me.

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We want the rain in the time of the latter rain.

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Lord, send the rain in the time of the latter

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rain. We desire in a dry and thirsty land where

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no water is. But you know, God's people, he said,

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if my people would stir themselves up, Isaiah

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64, 7, and take a hold of me, I could do what

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I desire to do. But I can't respond unless my

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people are hungry. If my people aren't hungry,

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I can't respond. Now we have a remnant of people

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that are hungry for God. We have a remnant. Thank

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God for the remnant. We got a lot of stuff going

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on just like everybody else. But we have decided

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that we are going to follow Jesus all the way.

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And that means laying down your life. That means

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self -sacrifice. That means giving up some of

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your time and giving it to Jesus. It is time

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to seek the Lord. Till what? Till he comes and

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rains righteousness upon us. And then I'll tell

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you what happens. Then the leaders, you know,

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what happens to the leaders is they start to

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feel the burden of the people. Then they feel

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the warfare from the enemy. And then they start

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to get discouraged. Don't tell me that's not

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happening because I can tell you straight up

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it's happening. You don't want your leader to

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get discouraged. Let me tell you something, church,

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who's listening to this on the Internet. I'm

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going to tell you straight up. You do not want

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your leader to get discouraged. You got a discouraged

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leader and you got a problem. And I am a traveling

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minister and I travel and all. different circles

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I'm thankful I'm not just stuck to one circle

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because not every circle not one circle has it

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all hello see I'm not gonna lie to you I'm gonna

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tell you the truth not one circle has it all

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and I travel in a lot of circles and it's really

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fun Because you could be all things to all men,

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that you can win them, and then you could give

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them something that you have. They can give you

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something that I need. Because there's different

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circles, listen, that have different measures

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of the anointing. And when we all start walking

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together in unity, God said, I'm going to really

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start commanding my blessing. And when my people

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get out of pride, then I'll really start commanding

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my blessing. See, I know I don't have it all.

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See, I'll tell you straight up. With me? I know

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where I fail. I know I got a thorn that sticks

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by me really close. And my weaknesses and that

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thorn help keep me in a place of humility. Because

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I am daily dependent on God. I know who I am.

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And I know about the thorn that I got following

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me around. And I know who God is. then I wish

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sometimes it would just, all of it stop. And

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then, you know, we could be this perfect vessel,

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you know, meet for the master's use, you know,

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the whole scripture, which we want to be. But

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you know that in our weaknesses, he is made strong.

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In our weaknesses, we rely on his grace. And

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he says, my grace is sufficient for you. My strength

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is made perfect in your weakness. Just rely on

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me and nothing else. Because I am working to

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work in my people that have said yes to me that

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if it were told them, it would be like a dream.

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But I travel a lot of different circles. And

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I can tell you straight up, some of the most

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amazing leaders that I know, I'm thinking of

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one in particular. Breaks your heart. My heart

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breaks for them. I sit there like this. You know

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how many times I've been on the phone like this?

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Talking to another leader. Crying. Sobbing. The

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most amazing leader. One of the most that I know.

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And you know who they are. It's a couple. they're

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both he's an apostle she's a prophet powerful

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tag team preacher husband and wife on the phone

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with her like this and you know them i know them

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you know you know them When you spend a lot of

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time with them on the phone and just preaching,

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you know, leaders are the most precious people,

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in my opinion, on the face of this earth because

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nobody knows what they do behind closed doors

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except Jesus Christ himself and their spouse,

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if their spouse is in tune with them. Like this.

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Crying. Sobbing. Now, at first she didn't want

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to call me. And I'm like, call me. I'm going

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to pray for you. Told me the whole story. This

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incredible warfare, incredible discouragement,

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built an amazing church, and she's like, thinks

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her and her husband are failures. Love you, honey.

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She thinks her and her husband are a failure.

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I'm sitting there, really? There's two sets of

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history books. History books on this earth and

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history books in heaven. What is God recording

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about our lives? And I had to remind her, you've

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got to live in the light of eternity. And when

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you live in the light of eternity, you'll keep

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enduring hardness as a good soldier of Jesus

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Christ. You won't be moved by what you see. You

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won't be moved by what you hear. You will only

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be moved on one thing, and that's the vision

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that's in your heart and what did God say for

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you to do, and that's all that matters. I said

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to Paul, I don't even care. I'm going to keep

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doing what God has called me to do. I don't care

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what it is. I don't care if it's one people,

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50 people, 500 people. None of it matters. What

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matters is your obedience to God. And one day,

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we will all stand before God, every single one

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of us, and we will give an account for our lives.

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They're probably going to play that at my funeral

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because I say it so often, and everybody will

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be cheering. rick joyner said something very

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interesting and i quoted him in my book focus

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he said he said you know we look across you know

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we look at churches they got these mega churches

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and people go wow they're successful and then

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we've got these faithful obedient Pastors who

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stick with the flock and they've got the same

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25, 50, 75, 100 people. And we think, oh, that

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guy over there? Hey, yo! He's got a church of

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10 ,000. What a successful man. Could you tell

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me how to build a church? And then they have

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seminars. How to build a church. Rick Joyner

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says, he says, that small church over there,

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they have greater spiritual authority than that

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large church over there. It's not about numbers.

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It's about spiritual authority and it's about

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your obedience to God. If you are in the right

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place at the right time and God has told you

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to do what you're doing, you just keep doing

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it. It's not easy. Tell me about it. You just

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got to keep doing it. Be steadfast, unmovable.

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always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing

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your labors are not in vain. One day you're going

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to stand before God and you're going to be like,

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all these people are going to come up to you

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and say, you mentored me, you trained me, you

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did all these things, and you don't even know

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what you did. Those of you that pray, you've

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prayed, Ellen, you've prayed about things and

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for things, you don't even know everything that

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you've accomplished in the spirit realm. See,

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because we see through a glass darkly. We don't

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see everything. We are in this world. We are

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not of the world. So when we pray, we don't realize

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that our prayers are working. We're just looking

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at the outward appearance and we're going, man,

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that guy's getting worse. Good, he's getting

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better. There's a flip side to the spirit realm.

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The spirit and the natural. You've got to flip

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it. It's more real than the natural. So when

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you pray, you're not only developing intimacy

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with God, right? You're also, you're changing

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things. My prayers avail much. Say that. My prayers

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avail much. You're changing things. I'm so over

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it. I've never been so over it like I am now.

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I am so over living for this world. I'll be honest,

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well, we're going to be anyway. We redid my couple

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rooms in my house. It's like, whatever. It used

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to excite me a little bit. You know, especially

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when you got a new family and all that. I get

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it. But, you know, the workers were in my house,

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and you know what I didn't like about it? It

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interrupted my time with God. I hate that. All

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these distractions. And, you know, they're in

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my room, and they're putting new cabinets in,

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and they're doing all this stuff. It was two

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days. I didn't even care. and look at it. Jesus.

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I said to the Lord, I finally went upstairs.

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All right, I'm going to go see what they've done.

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I opened the door. It's beautiful. All modern.

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Some of the latest stuff. I'm like, really? Now

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I've got to press a button to turn my shower

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on? I hope I can figure it out. You know, it's

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this thing. Then you hit the button and it gives

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the temperature. I don't know what degree my

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shower is. Can I have my old shower? You are

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going to cross over into a new dimension. God

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is opening up the eyes of your understanding

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and giving you a spirit of wisdom and revelation

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and the knowledge of him. There is an anointing

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in here, and this anointing in this room is bringing

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you to another dimension. There are new dimensions

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in God. There is one degree of glory to another

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degree of glory to another degree of glory. You

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are going into another dimension. You're not

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going to know what's happening in this moment.

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Mark my words, as you walk your days out and

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the days ahead, you're going to see that you've

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gone into another dimension. You're more conscious

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of the spirit realm than you are of this natural

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earthly realm. You're going into another dimension.

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That's why you're frustrated. You are frustrated,

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my dear, because you're going into another dimension

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and you've got the flesh or the human side and

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then you've got the spirit and it's warring against

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what God's desiring to bring you into this next

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phase and place of your life. Don't be concerned.

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Don't even think, consider it strange. It's actually

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pretty normal. Even Bill Johnson says it. When

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I heard Bill Johnson say it, I was so happy and

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excited that even he feels that way. He said

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it's really hard sometimes to manage both worlds.

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

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going into another dimension. And I'm going to

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tell you, by the Holy Ghost, there's some people

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that are going to be left behind. Not that they're

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not going to make it to heaven. But God's not

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going to anoint them with fresh oil. And I have

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a word for you, by the way. We'll get to that

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later. God's not going to anoint them with fresh

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oil. He's just going to leave them where they

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are, stuck in the mud. You sound really mean

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and like a hard preacher. I think we need a little

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bit of, come on already. It's not about you.

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It's not about the self -life. It's not about

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prophesy to me. What about being soldiers of

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Jesus Christ and advancing the kingdom? So, walked

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into the room. It was really beautiful. You know,

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I wonder sometimes, am I all right? Do you ever

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do that? You know, when you have God in you,

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and you have a vision in you, and you have a

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call in your life, and you feel people, and you

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feel the heart of God, it just, it just, it's

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hard to, you know, how do you explain that? It

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just becomes more real. And I came downstairs,

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went to the kitchen sink, turned on the faucet.

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You know how you know when God speaks to you,

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you remember exactly what you were doing? I said

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to God, what's wrong with me? Am I just ungrateful?

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Unthankful? Unappreciative? And you know what

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he said to me? As clear as a man speaks to a

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friend. He said, what does it profit a man if

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he gains the whole world and loses his soul?

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Live. in the light of eternity. Remember who

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you are. Your real father is God. Your real home

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is heaven. We are only traveling through this

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world as temporary aliens? Are we aliens? body

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is our earth suit the outward man is perishing

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yet the inward man is being renewed day by day

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by day by day live by what you see With the eyes

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of your spirit. Jeremiah, what do you see? These

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eyes tell one story. And these eyes tell another

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story. That's why you get frustrated. You just

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get frustrated. And I'm going to tell you how

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it works, Garth. Sometimes you already see things

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way ahead of time, and you want to be there.

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And God's saying it's not time yet. So then there's

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that transition time where you've got to stay

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in the here and now, but still have your eyes

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set on what's above in the future. That is very

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hard for a leader to do. Because we get all...

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We get all... I don't know what the word is.

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Yeah, yeah, exactly. No, but I hear you. Not

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only that, but if you... too much in the future

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that's not time yet you'll quit you'll stop and

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you'll get discouraged and then you won't be

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like the apostle paul that said i've run the

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race i have finished my course and there's laid

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up for me a crown blah blah blah and so on and

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so forth brother kennedy hagan said one time

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he said some people live and die never enter

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into the first phase of their ministry let's

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enter into the second the third and the fourth

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let's do it all I have another friend who had

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an amazing church, her and her husband. And they

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had a great church. Let me tell you something.

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They were ahead of their times. They were prophesied.

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Actually, we all were in the early 80s. Remember

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the early 80s? We were prophesying and moving

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in the spirit and singing in psalms and hymns

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and spiritual songs and flowing in that river

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of prophetic. They had the flags. They had it

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all going. They had it all. Dance. They had an

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amazing ministry. You know what happened? The

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devil got into their minds. It's to me. It's

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here a little, there a little. Little bit of

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discouragement here, little bit of discouragement

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there. That's why you got to live from the inside

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out. What is your heart telling you? I get it.

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I go, no. And if you pray in tongues a lot, you'll

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really be strong. You'll really live from the

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inside out. You know why? Because your inner

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man is built up. Your inner being. has gained

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the ascendancy. People get weak because they

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don't pray in tongues. Well, it's so simple to

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pray in tongues. It goes like this. You can play

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with your hair. You can look at your watch. Put

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the toothbrush in your mouth. You could be in

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the car. You could be with William. You could

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be praying in tongues. No matter where you are,

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you could pray in tongues. And you're edifying

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yourself. You're building yourself up on your

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most holy faith. You're praying in the Holy Ghost.

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And your inner man takes charge. Stupid flesh.

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What is the flesh? Mind, will, emotions. Who

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was it that said thought processes? One of you

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guys, or maybe I just heard it from somebody

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else. I don't know. It's all your thoughts that

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are not always your thoughts. Some of it's the

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devil. And you know what he does? He goes in

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and he goes, he takes that little weakness you

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have in your soul, and he just, he shoots a fiery

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dart. And together, that fiery dart and that

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weakness in your soul, which we all have, takes

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a hold, and then it becomes a stronghold. Thank

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

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