Prayer & Purpose | CTN Episode 9

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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 Prayer and Purpose. I'm your

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host, Margie Florent. Let me ask you a question.

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How do you... you pray when you need wisdom and

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answers to the problems you face in life? How

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do you pray when you need to make a decision

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about a life altering event? In this episode,

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I'm going to talk to you about how to pray for

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this wisdom that at times we all so desperately

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need. But first, we're going to take a commercial

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break. And when I come back, we're going to dive

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deep into how to pray. for wisdom and understanding.

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This is my book, Decision Time. Everyone should

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read this book, especially those of you who are

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at a crossroads in your life. You don't know

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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 margieflaurent .org, you will see

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that this book is available to you. So we've

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been talking about the power and the purpose

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of praying in tongues. We've talked to you about

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that tongues is a supernatural means of communication,

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that you are speaking the language of heaven,

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that it's your spirit. that is in communication

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with God and that he understands you. We talked

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about how we're praying in line with God's perfect

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will and order according to his order for your

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life or the object of your prayer focus. You

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are also praying to God from. your position in

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Christ. But we're going to go a little bit deeper

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today. I want to talk to you about how praying

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in tongues is a way whereby you pray the wisdom

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of God. We're going to go ahead and read here

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at James chapter one, verse five. And it says

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here, and I'm reading out of the Amplified. If

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any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask

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of God. who gives to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly

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without reproaching or fault finding. And it

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will be given him only. It must be in faith that

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he asked with no wavering, no hesitation and

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no doubting for the one who wavers, hesitates

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and doubts is like a bill. surge at sea that

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is blown hither and tither and tossed by the

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wind for truly let not that man think that he

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will receive anything from God. And the scripture

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goes on to say that that man is unstable in all

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of his ways. So the Bible says, if any of you.

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lack wisdom let him ask of God so we know that

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we can approach the throne room of grace we know

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we can go boldly and we can ask the Lord we could

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say Lord you have made unto me wisdom righteousness

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sanctification and redemption I know that it's

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your will that you order my steps that all my

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steps are ordered and established by you but

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I have a decision to make I don't know exactly

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what to do so After you've prayed the scriptures,

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after you've approached the throne of God and

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quoted the scriptures concerning the thing and

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the object of your prayer, how do you pray? Well,

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before we get into that, I want to talk to you

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about the Greek word Sophia, which is the word

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that is used here in James chapter one. It says

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here in the scripture, if any man lacks wisdom

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or Sophia, let him ask of God. So let's define

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Sophia. The Greek word Sophia is defined as the

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ability to judge correctly and to follow the

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best course of action. Listen, based on knowledge

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and understanding, wisdom is God's clarity or

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God revealed clarity. It conveys the Lord's solution.

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for problem solving in other words sophia manifests

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god's divine influence regarding solving problems

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or challenges by how by applying god's solutions

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remember we read the scripture if any man lacks

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Wisdom or Sophia, let him ask of God. So we're

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asking God for wisdom. We're asking God to give

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us solutions to the problems that we are facing.

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Wisdom, when we ask, is always given by God and

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reveals what is necessary in that particular

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situation. What I love about prayer is that when

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we ask of God, he hears us. And we know that

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when he hears us, we know that we have the petition

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we desire of him. So wisdom, when we ask, is

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always given by God. Ultimately, all true wisdom

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resides in Christ. who is the personification

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of perfect wisdom. Remember, we talked about

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this in our previous broadcast, that we are in

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Christ. Therefore, we have this wisdom on the

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inside of us. Remember, the scripture says, he

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has made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification.

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So the wisdom of God is already on the inside

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of the recreated human spirit. So we have this

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wisdom on the inside of us. But what we want

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is we want that wisdom to rise up from our hearts,

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from our spirits and give us illumination in

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our minds and understanding as to what. direction

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in which we are to go. Again, if anyone lacks

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wisdom, let him ask of God, what do I do? How

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do I go? What do I say? What do I need to do

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in this particular situation? Now, wisdom is

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the insight. I love this into the true nature

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of things. Knowledge. is the mental or intellectual

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insight as to what has been revealed. But wisdom,

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I'm going to repeat this, is the insight into

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the true nature of things. So God knows things

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that you and I don't know. God knows your future

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better than you know your past. He knows every...

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that is going on in your circumstances so he

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knows everything but what we want is is we want

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that god clarity that god wisdom to rise up on

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the inside of us so that we can with our understanding

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listen make the right decisions wisdom is the

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power of right reasoning Concerning our prayer

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focus and forming right decisions accordingly.

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Wisdom is the ability to judge correctly and

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to follow the best course of action based on

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knowledge and Spiritual understanding. So it's

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not just natural knowledge. It's also spiritual

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understanding. Sophia, wisdom, what God knows

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about the situation. That's why we hear the scripture

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often that says, trust in the Lord with all of

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your heart. Lean not to your own understanding

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and all your ways acknowledge him. He will direct.

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your path so we can have wisdom in our hearts

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but what we need is understanding in our minds

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in other words for our minds to be fruitful okay

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so wisdom is the art of being successful of forming

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the correct plan to gain the desired results

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so we know that the bible says the steps of a

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good man are ordered and established by the lord

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We also know that the Bible says a man plans

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his ways, but the Lord directs his steps. Now

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stay with me. I'm going to pull all of this together

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in talking about how to pray this wisdom out.

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So wisdom, Sophia, emphasizes the understanding

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of all things. Sophia is used frequently in the

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New Testament to describe. the ability to discern

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and conform to God's will. So when we live our

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life by this wisdom, by the Sophia, we are walking

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according to and in harmony with God's will.

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So things work together. Things come into alignment

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when we are walking in this wisdom. So I want

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to interject this and I want you to understand

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the importance of this. When you pray in tongues,

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you and I are praying God's solutions to problems

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and God's answers to questions. Therefore, all

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things work together for the good to those who

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love God and are called according to. His purpose.

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So when you speak in an unknown tongue, we know

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the Bible says you speak not unto men, but unto

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God. How be it in the spirit? You and I are speaking

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mysteries. Now, if you go over into first Corinthians

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two, seven through 10, it says here in verse

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seven, that when we speak, we speak. the wisdom

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of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which

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God ordained before the ages for our glory, which

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in this case, which none of the worlds of this

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age had known, for they had known it, they would

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have never crucified the Lord of glory. So when

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you pray in tongues, and I pray in tongues, when

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I don't know what to pray, I don't know how to

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pray, I don't know exactly what direction to

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go. I know that when I pray in tongues, I am

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speaking the wisdom of God in this mystery, in

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this unknown tongue, in this language that I

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don't understand with my natural mind. So I just

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want to encourage you today, my friends. up the

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gift of God that is in you. You listen. The spirit

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of God is within you. You don't have a spirit

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of fear. When you pray in the spirit and you

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pray in tongues, you're praying out the mystery.

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You're praying out the things you don't understand.

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And you don't have to be afraid that you're going

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to make the wrong mistakes when you surrender

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yourself to him and you surrender your life to

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him and you say, Lord, not my will your will

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be done in my life i don't know what to do i

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don't know what direction to pray or even i don't

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know how to pray for my lost loved one i don't

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know how to pray for my son or my daughter when

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you pray in tongues you are hitting the target

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you are praying god's solution to that circumstance.

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So I want to encourage you stir up the gift of

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God that is in you. Stir up your prayer language.

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And when you do, you are praying out the wisdom

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of God. OK, so we're just going to take a break

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here. And when I come back, we're going to continue

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our teaching. 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.

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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.

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So if you would like a wonderful resource on

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how to begin your prayer life, I encourage you

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to get this book, Encountering God Through Prayer.

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Go to my website at margieflaurent .org. Okay,

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let's continue our teaching. We're going to piggyback

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on what we just talked about. Praying in tongues

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is also... in a perfect way for the unknown.

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In other words, it's the perfect way to pray

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for the unknown. Lance Wallnau once said, he

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said, did you know that there is a prayer called,

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I don't know? He said, prayer is very spiritual.

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You just go off somewhere quiet and hidden and

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you walk right up to the heart of God and you

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say, these emotions I don't know how to handle

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this situation it covers a lot he said of I don't

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know but then with whatever dusty little grain

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of faith you have you say to the Lord but you

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know I love that so remember my friends the Holy

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Spirit knows all things past present future Circumstances.

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What's going on in our nation? What's going on

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in other nations? What's being hidden? What is

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not revealed? The Holy Spirit knows everything.

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He is all knowing. So listen. The beauty of God

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is he knows. Now when you pray in tongues. And

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I'll prove it to you in the scripture. You are

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praying from a place of knowing. And then we

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know. The scripture says. That all things work

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together for the good. Why? Because we've prayed

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out the wisdom of God for the object of that

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prayer focus. Okay? Let's go ahead. I'm going

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to read. I know I've read this before. I'm going

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to read it again. Faith comes by hearing and

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hearing by the word of God. And I'm going to

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keep saying it. Because I'm concerned that the

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body of Christ is not praying the way we need

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to pray. And that is not just the scriptures.

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Yes, the word of God. But also diving in and

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stirring up their prayer language. And the reason

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people are not stirring up their prayer language

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is because they don't understand the power and

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the purpose of praying in tongues. So we're going

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to go ahead and we're going to read again Romans

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8, 26. Again, I'm going to read from the Amplified.

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It says here, with unspeakable yearnings and

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groanings too deep for utterance another translation

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says my spirit by the holy spirit within me prays

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so it's not the holy spirit just standing outside

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of you in some cloud somewhere you know interceding

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no it's your spirit by the holy spirit praying

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we are the house of prayer we have to yield over

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to the holy spirit stir up the gift of god is

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within us yield to him and and let that expression

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come forth up out of our lips and god answers

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that prayer i like to put it like this he puts

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the prayer in your heart to pray we pray it and

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prayer opens up the door for god to work because

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man is god's avenue into the earth and the scripture

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goes on to say and he who searches the hearts

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of men knows what is in the mind of the Holy

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Spirit, what his intent is, because the Spirit

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intercedes and pleads before God in behalf of

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the saints according to and in harmony with God's

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will. So when you're praying in tongues, you're

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praying in harmony with the will of God. You're

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praying out the mystery. You're praying for the

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thing you don't know, you don't understand, that

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you need clarity on. And it says here, and we

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are assured and know that God being a partner

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in their labor, that all things work together.

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And what? And are fitting into a plan for good

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to and for those who love God and those who are

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called according to his purpose. Okay? So we

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thank God for praying in tongues. We thank God

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for praying in the Holy Ghost that when we don't

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know. how to pray for the unknown we can pray

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in this spirit so well Margie where does that

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what does that do for me because I still need

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to make a decision I still need to know what

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to do here's what I'd like to introduce to you

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When you've spent that time praying in the spirit

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when you've spent that time praying in the Holy

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Ghost Whether it's while you're vacuuming or

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you're in your car or you're in your prayer closet

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Wherever when you've spent that time that devotional

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time praying in the Holy Spirit for that prayer

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Focus as you go your way as you walk out your

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daily life What will happen is? The Holy Spirit

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will rise up within you and I don't know the

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exact verse but he will cause your thoughts to

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become agreeable with his thoughts and then your

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plans will succeed in other words he will give

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illumination to your mind understanding to your

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spirit you will begin to live and move and operate

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in the wisdom of God So I want to encourage you,

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if you haven't, stir up the gift of God. When

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you don't know how to pray, pray in the Holy

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Ghost. Well, how long do I pray in the Holy Ghost?

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Well, the Apostle Paul said, I think my God is

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speaking tongues more than you all. So sometimes

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I may pray in tongues for 15 minutes, maybe a

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half an hour, maybe an hour. Maybe if it's a

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very big decision, like big, huge, where am I

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going to live? What am I going to do? What should

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I do? All of that. may spend two three four days

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in prayer in tongues spending time in the presence

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of God devoting myself unto him well what if

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I don't get an answer right away well don't put

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pressure on yourself right don't put pressure

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on yourself if you have to hear from God there's

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so many times that I've heard people say this

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they'll be in the shower and God will speak to

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them it's so interesting because in my life it's

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this is so interesting A lot of times, if I'm

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praying for direction, I'll be at the gym, I'll

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be working out, and while I'm doing that particular

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exercise, something, he, the Holy Spirit, rises

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up on the inside, gives illumination to my mind,

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and I know exactly what to do. It's sometimes

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at the times you least expect it. I think sometimes

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when you just rest, and let your soul rest, and

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you just go your way and you're doing something

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else and thinking about something else, the Holy

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Spirit can rise up, okay? Remember, you're a

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triune being. You are a spirit, you have a soul,

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and you live in a body. It's your spirit by the

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Holy Spirit that needs to communicate with your

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mind exactly what you need to do, okay? We're

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going to bring this to a close. Speaking in tongues

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is also a way whereby you can... Pray for what

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I call spiritual edification. It says in 1 Corinthians

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14, 4, he who speaks in a tongue edifies himself.

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That word edify is more like the word charge.

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So when you speak in tongues, you are edifying,

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charging yourself up. Those of you, and we all

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have them now, we all have our cell phones. You

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know, the battery gets low, so what do we do?

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We stick this phone over by a power source. We

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plug it in, and as we plug the charger into the

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power source, the phone gets charged up, and

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we're able to use that phone for a longer period

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of time. When you pray in tongues, you are charging

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yourself up. It's a spiritual charging. It's

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a spiritual edification. It is not mental edification.

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It is spiritual edification. And I found for

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me personally that when I'm tired. When I'm spiritually

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drained, when I have a lot of circumstances going

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on that are just attacking me all at once, I

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just say to myself, you know what? I know what

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the scripture says. I'm just going to edify myself.

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So I walk the floors and I just pray in tongues.

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And I just stir up the gift of God. I pray in

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the Holy Ghost. And after about 5, 10, 15 minutes,

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I sense. The inside of me rising up and I'm getting

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stronger on the inside. So praying in tongues

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is a way whereby you can charge yourself up spiritually

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speaking. Also, when you pray in tongues, it's

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a way to worship God in the spirit. It says in

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Acts 2 .11 that they were all speaking in tongues

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the wonderful works of God. Jesus said, or the

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scripture says, that when a person comes to God,

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he must worship him in spirit and in truth. When

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you've sung all the songs that we sing in church,

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you say, Lord, you are worthy. Let's switch into...

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tongues in worship whereby we go beyond the songs

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that we are singing and beyond the hymns that

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we are singing and we sing to him in psalms and

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hymns and spiritual songs and we sing and we

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make melody in our heart to the lord and that's

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what we call singing in other tongues it says

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in acts 10 47 they heard them speak with tongues

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and magnify god 1 Corinthians 14, 15 says, I

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will sing with the spirit. I will sing with the

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understanding also. How about we begin to stir

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up singing in tongues again in our public assemblies?

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I remember when I was coming up in the charismatic

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movement and we would all just enter into worship.

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In other tongues. And everybody was harmonizing.

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And it was so beautiful. And it was like. You

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could actually hear. Sometimes it felt like you

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could hear the angels singing. And worshiping

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God with us. So let's bring that back to our

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churches. Singing in other tongues. Okay. Kenneth

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E. Hagin once said. And then we're going to go

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ahead and close. I have found. That in my own

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life. That the more I. pray and worship god in

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tongues the more the manifestation of the gifts

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of the spirit i have i know we all want to operate

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in the gifts of the spirit we all want to be

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used of god in the nine gifts of the spirit let

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me just say this I have found that to be true

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in my own life as well. That when I stir up my

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prayer language, and I stir up the gift of God

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that's in me, and I pray in the Spirit, and I

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worship in the Spirit, sing in tongues, pray

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in tongues, I notice that I'm operating more

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and more and more in the manifestations of the

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Holy Spirit. Okay? So let's just practice what

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we've learned. Let's practice what we've heard

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today. And I know it's going to change your life.

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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. It doesn't return void. It produces

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results. My book Contend, Stewarding the Hearts

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and Destinies of Our Children Through Prayer,

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is one of my most favorite projects thus far.

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In this book, I teach the reader how to pray

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effectively for their children, their grandchildren,

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and the rising generations that are in the earth

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today. Make no mistake about it. There is war

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over the hearts and the destinies of our children.

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And this book will equip you as to how to pray

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effectively for those young people. In this book,

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I teach you about the power and the purpose of

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praying in tongues. I show you what a prayer

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alert looks like. There are sample prayers. Not

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only that, there are outlines at the end of each

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

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use this book as a springboard to teach others

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how to pray for their children. Go to my website

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at margieflorent .org and pick up your own copy.

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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

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you. For more inspiration and resources on today's

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topic,