PRAYER & PURPOSE | CTN Episode 28

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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. Goes into the hearts

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of the people, doesn't return void, it produces

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results. Welcome to our broadcast, Prayer and

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Purpose. I'm happy that you're here. I'm your

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host, Margie Flaurant. I'm excited to continue

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our teaching on knowing God as Father. When the

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disciples came to Jesus, they came to him and

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they asked him a question, which I shared in

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our last episode, I call the Golden Question,

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and they said to him, Lord, teach us to pray.

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And Jesus' first response to that question was

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this. When you pray, say, Father who are in heaven

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so right there when Jesus was teaching his disciples

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about prayer He introduced the world he introduced

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to the disciples the heart of a father a relational

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God a God who is not just El Shaddai the God

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that's more than enough or Jehovah knee see Jehovah

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Sid K new God on a first -name basis all the

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I am that I am who speaks in the thunders and

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in the lightnings and part of the Red Sea No,

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he came down. He said look when you pray say

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our Father and so we're going to continue in

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our teaching knowing God as father and we are

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going to continue to starve your doubts and your

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fears and feed your faith because Many many many

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of you even in my own life. We've had situations

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with our earthly father that were not positive

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They may have been abusive. They may have been

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neglectful There may be all kinds of trauma that

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you've experienced with your earthly father and

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so what we want to do is we want to learn the

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scriptures and understand who God is as a father

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and Understand that our father in heaven Is a

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perfect father that he's not like our earthly

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father That he is a god who is a god of Unconditional

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love and it's his will his desire that we know

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him Okay. Now we talked in our last episode.

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We talked about god Providing salvation through

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sending his son his only begotten son who came

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into the world The Bible says God so loved the

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world that he gave his only begotten son. He

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was the initiator He made the first move. He

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saw that humanity was in need of a Savior and

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so his heart Was to provide salvation so that

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his creation would not be eternally damned So

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we found out that he provided salvation. We also

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found out that our God our father is a Provider

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and if you look around on the outside, you could

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just look at nature, you know, look at my shirt

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I think it's a perfect shirt consider the fields

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how beautiful they are And Jesus said himself,

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if you see how beautiful the fields are, God,

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your father provided that beauty. Just look around

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and you can see God the father in all of nature.

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He said, Jesus said, if you look at the birds

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in the air, they don't sow nor do they gather

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into barns, yet your heavenly father feeds them

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and takes care of them. So we're not gonna get

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into all the scriptures. but we showed you in

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our last episode that our Father is a Father

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who desires to provide for His children. And

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if you then, being natural parents, know how

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to give good gifts to your children, the Bible

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says, how much more does your Heavenly Father

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want to give good things to those that ask Him?

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And I've never seen the righteous forsaken. Nor

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their seed out begging for bread the Bible says

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beloved above all I wish that you prosper and

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be in health Even as your soul prospers, so it's

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our father's desire to provide for his children

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Okay, so let's go on. Let's talk about your father

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sees you He is the God who sees he sees you He

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hears you when you pray. He's not ignoring you.

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I understand sometimes when we pray, and we've

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all had it happen, I've had it happen, you pray

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to God and it feels like you're praying and your

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prayers are hitting the ceiling, coming back

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and hitting you, and sometimes there may be this

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thought that says, oh God doesn't really hear

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me. Well my friends, that is not Bible. The Bible

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says, Second current Chronicles 7 14 and 15 if

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my people will humble themselves and pray and

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Seek my face. He said I'll hear from heaven.

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I'll forgive your sin I'll heal your land and

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then he goes on to say now my eyes will be open

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and my ears attentive Onto the prayers that are

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made in this place. So when you pray it may see

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a certain way but in reality God hears you when

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you pray God hears you when you pray he not only

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hears you the scripture says his eyes are upon

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you so when you pray we're gonna get into this

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when we teach on all different kinds of prayer

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you have to believe that you receive it and then

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you'll have it you not only have to believe that

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you receive and you'll have it but you have to

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believe that he is You have to believe that he

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hears you you have to believe that even though

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you don't see him with your physical eyes He

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is present with you in the spirit Didn't Jesus

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say blessed are those who believe but have never

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seen you know You talk about Thomas right that

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people call him doubting Thomas, right? That's

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not a very good legacy, but I believe Thomas

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did some some other things that were pretty good

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But people call him doubting Thomas. Why do they

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call him that because he said out of his own

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mouth He said I'm not gonna believe that the

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Lord has risen from the dead Until I see those

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nail scars in his hand and I touch him Well,

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Jesus came and he fulfilled the desire of Thomas's

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heart But then he went on to say he said well

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blessed are those that believe and have never

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seen me Physically in the flesh now, there's

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a lot of people in the day and in the hour that

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we live in They there's a lot of prophetic dreams

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a lot of prophetic voices a lot of people who

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see angels they see Jesus they see Manifestations

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now my friends whether you and I see any of those

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things or not We still have to walk by faith

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and not by sight Blessed is she that believed?

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God Jesus said or the angel said to Mary. There's

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gonna be a performance things that have been

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told you by the Lord she believed she believed

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my friends even though you don't see in the physical

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we must believe we must stand in faith we must

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believe that he is we must believe that he hears

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us okay That wasn't in my notes, but it was good

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anyway. So the father sees you and he hears you

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when you break. He is not ignoring you. He said,

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my eyes will be open and my ears attentive. Now

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for me, when I was growing up, I had an absent

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father. He was not only absent, but when he was

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home, he was the strangest thing. And I guess

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there's a name for it. Now they have a name for

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it. I would be talking to him. We'd be sitting

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on the couch. And right in the middle of my conversation

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with him, he would just fall asleep. And it was

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the strangest feeling as a child to have my father,

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who I was trying to communicate with, fall asleep.

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And I felt like he's ignoring me. So for me,

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when I began to pray and I learned how to pray,

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I sometimes would use Matthew 6, vain repetitions.

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I would just go to God and I would have this

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sense that God doesn't hear me God doesn't see

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me and What I experienced as a little girl carried

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over into my relationship with my father God

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and it took me time and it took the Word of God

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and and just hearing what the Bible said to starve

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that doubt starve that mentality and understand

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that when I pray my father who sees in secret

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he not only will reward me but he hears me when

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I pray and then I could have confidence in that

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that when I pray because I know he hears me I

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know that I have the petition that I desire of

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him that's found in the New Testament this is

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the confidence that we have in him If we ask

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anything according to his will we know he hears

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us and if we know he hears us We know that we

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have the petitions that we desire of him. This

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is very very very important Okay, let's go into

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John 11 I said a lot of things I was not planning

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to say because I believe there's somebody listening

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to this broadcast that needed to hear that God

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hears you and he sees you you are not Invisible

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to God. Okay, just remember that you're his child

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and he sees you and it's my father's good pleasure

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To give you the kingdom. It's my father's good

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pleasure to provide for you It's my father's

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good pleasure to take you out of that poverty

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situation and give you the desire of your heart

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Which is a new job which is provision which would

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even for some You know you may be a single mom

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and you need provision well the Bible says God

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takes care of the widows and the orphans This

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is a matter of fact the scripture says he is

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a father To the fatherless and he helps the widows

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and the orphans So if your children don't have

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a father You can trust my friend That your heavenly

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father will be a father in your home. If you're

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a single parent a single mom, okay God will take

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up any area of lack in your family dynamic because

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he is your father Okay. Okay. Let's talk about

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before we go to break. I want to talk about Jesus

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and the death of Lazarus and what happened now

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Jesus Here's about the death of Lazarus Okay,

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he had been dead four days and they called for

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Jesus and Jesus just took his time And finally

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when Jesus got on the scene Mary comes to where

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Jesus is And she fell down at his feet. She said

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Lord if you had been with us my my brother It

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would not have died so the Bible says in verse

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33 therefore when Jesus saw her weeping and the

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Jews who came with her weeping Listen to this

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He groaned in the spirit and he was troubled

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He didn't speak any words. He just groaned in

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the spirit. This is a whole nother message but

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groaning is a language of the spirit and God

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hears the groanings the Bible says of the prisoner

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so Here we see Jesus groaning in the spirit and

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he was troubled his father heard his groaning

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and i'll show you when we get down to that verse

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and then he said where have you laid it laid

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it and verse 35 says jesus therefore weeps weeping

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is a kind of prayer the bible says he hears your

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he sees your tears and all your tears are kept

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in about Contrary the Bible says that Jesus is

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close to the broken heart And I'm hearing this

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right now. He said I'll never leave you. I'll

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never forsake you I am a father to you. I am

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with you always even unto the ends of this earth

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Just trust in me with all of your heart. Don't

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pull away from me draw near to me The Bible says

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and I will draw near to you Just heard in my

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spirit and I will make provision for you, but

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I need you to believe I need you to receive and

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I need you to confess out of your mouth My word

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and the word says my God Philippians 4 13 will

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supply all of my needs according to his riches

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in glory by Christ Jesus so Jesus wept in verse

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41 says and they took away the stone from the

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place where the dead man was laying and jesus

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lifted up his eyes now hear this what did he

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do he weeped and he groaned he never uttered

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any words yeah so to speak and what does he say

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words in red father now notice he's talking to

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his father he always communicated with his father

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until he was on the cross and he was separated

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from the Father, and then he said, my God, my

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God, why have you forsaken me? But all through

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his life, God was his Father. He said, Father,

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I thank you that you have heard me, and I know,

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here, this is for you, I know that you hear me,

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but because of the people who are standing by,

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I said this. He just did it for the people. But

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in his heart, he knew God hurt him. In your heart,

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you can know that God hears you. He said, but

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I said this for the people that they may believe

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you who sent me. And then he goes on to say,

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Lazarus, come forth. And then he says, loose

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him and let him go. So I hope that answers your

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question. Does God hear me when I pray? That's

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why we have to base everything that we do in

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prayer on the Word of God. God hears you when

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you pray, okay? So we're gonna take a break here,

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and when we come back, we are going to continue

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this powerful teaching from the heart of our

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God. This is my book, Decision Time. Everyone

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should read this book. especially those of you

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who are in a crossroads in your life. You don't

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

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you. This is the book where you reach a place

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

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done in my life. I also include in this book

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how to hear the voice of God, which is important

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

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website at margieflorant .org, you will see that

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this book is available to you okay let's continue

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our teaching your father approves of you loves

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you unconditionally for who you are not for what

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you will become or who you think you need to

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be in order to be accepted or approved by him

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now this is a big one Because I think sometimes

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parents especially in the day in the hour that

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we live in today They live vicariously Through

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their children and that is a complete dysfunction

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and they want their children to be the best They

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want their kids to get the best grades They want

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their kids to score all the goals in a soccer

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game or a hockey game or a football game And

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at times I think parents today put a lot of pressure

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on their children. And so therefore when we come

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to the father and we come to him. We think that

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we have to do something in order to be Accepted

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by him and I know that there's somebody listening

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right now Who has this mindset and has this mentality

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because I feel it in my spirit But God said you

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will know the truth and the truth will make you

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free you my friend Don't have to do anything

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Order to be accepted by your Heavenly Father

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I'm hearing the scripture and it's right here

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in my notes Thank God Ephesians 1 4 through 6

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he chose us in him before the foundation of the

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world That we should be holy and without blame

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before him in love. He has made us Accepted in

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the beloved. So my friends you are accepted And

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that word accepted means to receive with approval

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or favor. You have favor with God. You are accepted

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in the beloved. You are the righteousness of

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God in Christ Jesus because of everything that

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Jesus did in his death, burial and resurrection.

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When the father looks at you, he sees you complete.

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He sees his son. He sees righteousness. He sees

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you completely. Beautiful and whole in your spirit.

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He has made you Accepted in the beloved and I'm

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hearing in my spirit. There's someone listening

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You're just striving and striving and striving

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to be accepted by God and God wants you to just

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sit back He's saying be still and know that I

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am God you are accepted In the death burial and

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resurrection of my son and I want you just to

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rest in me Okay, the Bible says in John 16 27

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for the father himself loves you because You

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loved me and have believed that I came forth

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from God. So the father himself Loves you. I

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want you just to say that with me my father Loves

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me and let's look at him and let's say it like

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this father. I know that you loved me and that

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you love me I Thank you father that you love

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me Okay, and just accept the fact that he loves

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you there is nothing you can do that will make

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God love you anymore or any less than he does

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right now. The love that God has for you is not

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based on performance. It's just based on an unconditional

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acceptance of who you are right in his presence,

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okay? Romans 5, 8 says, but God demonstrated

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his own love towards us in that wow. Sinners

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remember how you were before you were saved You

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were doing a lot of things going a lot of places

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and maybe some of you weren't Okay, either way

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while we were sinners the Bible says Christ died

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for us Okay, so I think sometimes what happens

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especially if a person is more mature in the

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things of God I think what happens is We think

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all right too much is given much is required

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and we take that scripture and we start putting

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pressure on Ourself and we get out of grace Out

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of the grace of God out of the grace that saved

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us and we step into works No, but Bible says

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by grace. Are you saved through faith? It's not

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of yourself. It is a gift from God so It's time

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for us to rest in his love that we are Accepted

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in the beloved Jeremiah 1 5 says before I formed

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in the womb I knew amplified says and I approved

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of you I love that as my chosen instrument and

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Before you were born I consecrated you to myself

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to my own And in Jeremiah's case, I appointed

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you as a prophet to the nations. So God approves

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of you. Good grades, bad grades, good behavior,

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bad behavior. No, we don't want grace to give

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us a license to sin. But you can go boldly to

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the throne of grace when you do sin and obtain

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mercy and help in your time of need. And just

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know that God loves you unconditionally. He is

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your father. And if you've run away from father's

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house, you can come back to father's house and

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be accepted in the beloved. He'll put a robe

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on your back, a ring on your finger, and he'll

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throw a great big party for you. So just know

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that you are accepted in the beloved. We don't

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have much time left, but I wanna end it with

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this. your father is not mad at you. If you had

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an angry or abusive father, it could have created

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this mindset where you're always walking on eggshells.

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So when you come into the presence of God, oh,

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is God mad at me? He might be mad at me. The

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church that I was raised in, you know, it was

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this mindset that God was mad at me. And so it

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took me a little while to understand that God

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is not mad at me, okay? The bible says oh lord

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you have searched me and known me You know my

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sitting down and my rising up you understand

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my thoughts from afar You comprehend my path

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There is not a word on my tongue But behold oh

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lord, you know it are all together You have hedged

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me behind and before and you've laid your hand

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upon me Such knowledge is so wonderful It is

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so high I cannot contain it Okay, so just know

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that God is not mad at you So before we we sign

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off today, I'm going to say a prayer for you

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So heavenly father, I just bring my listener

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before you in the name of Jesus I thank you that

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they are approved that you you approve of each

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One that is listening under the sound of my voice

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I pray that you would increase them in all wisdom

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and revelation I pray that the eyes of their

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understanding would be open and enlightened,

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that they would come to know and understand the

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wonders of your heart, that you would give them

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a revelation of your love, the height, the depth,

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the breadth, and the length of the love that

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you have for them, okay? In Jesus' name. So right

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where you are, I just want you to lift up your

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hands and thank him. Father, we just thank you.

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We just thank you that the entrance of your word

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brings light. We thank you that the eyes of our

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heart and the eyes of our understanding are being

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open and enlightened. I thank you, Father God,

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for a confidence in your presence. I thank you,

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Father, for your word. I thank you for your spirit,

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and I thank you for continuing to take us deeper

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and to take us higher in Jesus' name. Alright,

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I want to read one more scripture 1st John 4

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16 and we have known And believed so we know

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and now we believe the love That God has for

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us God is love and he who abides in love abides

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in God and God in him. There is no fear love

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but perfect love casts out fear because fear

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involves torment but he who fears has not been

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made perfect in love we love him because he first

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loved us so you can call your father Abba father

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Romans 8 5 8 15 says We did not receive the spirit

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of bondage to fear but we have received the spirit

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of adoption whereby we cry out Abba Daddy that

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word Abba means daddy Abba daddy father. He is

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your father So I hope you receive something.

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I know you did and we have one more episode Because

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we didn't finish on the heart of our father.

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God bless you The Lord spoke to me one day. He

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said, Margie, many of my people desire to be

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intimate with me. They desire to spend time with

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me. They desire to have a vibrant prayer life,

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

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just don't know how to start. So I wrote this

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book with that in mind, encountering God through

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prayer, simple strategies to develop a powerful

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prayer life. I take the reader from the very

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basics. Begin where you are. Begin with 15 minutes.

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Find a quiet place in your house. Go into a closet

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

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you are. And I teach the reader about the heart

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

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

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and His nature and you'll be afraid of Him. 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 into

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what I call contemplative prayer. So if you would

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like a wonderful resource on how to begin your

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prayer life, I encourage you to get this book,

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Encountering God Through Prayer. Go to my website

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at maryflorant .org. Thank you so much for tuning

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in to today's podcast. It has been such a joy

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sharing this time with you. For more inspiration

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and resources on today's topic, please visit

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our website at margieflaron .org.