Prayer School | May 2, 2025 – Part 1

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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. Hello everyone. Wow, we're growing.

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This is wonderful. How is everyone? Before we

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get started, I really wanted to get started on

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time. Not that we don't, but maybe a minute before.

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Does anyone want information about our prayer

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call that we have on Thursdays at 9 a .m. Eastern

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Standard Time? Does anyone want the access code

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and the number? I'm going to have my guy help

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me. Thank you. I have a prayer call every Thursday

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at 9 a .m. Eastern Standard Time. What I do is

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I teach for whatever God puts on my heart, and

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then I lead guided prayer. And it's been quite

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interesting because what I do is I teach for

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20 minutes about, and then I mute everybody.

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And then when we go into the prayer part, everyone's

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still muted, and I'm leading guided prayer. So

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I'm in my office in my pajamas or in my sweats

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or hair looking crazy, and nobody knows, but

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crazy anointed. And we've really been having

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a good time. And then at the end, I unmute. You

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can hear everybody praying in the background.

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So it is by faith, but it's really not because

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though we're absent in the flesh, we're present

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in the spirit. So, I mean, I've got all these

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people online. We've had as many as 50 show up

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for our, it's a conference prayer call. So there's

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thankfully no video, which I think sometimes

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is, I like it better because it's just easier.

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And it's just a call. And so I try to keep it

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at 50 minutes. And so I just want to invite you

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to join. You just dial in the number. And then

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there's an access code. You don't have to inbox

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me and ask me how to do it. It's not working.

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It's working. We're believing God for 120 in

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the beginning. And then we're going to get up

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to 1 ,000, and it will happen. Because if Billy

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Brim can have 2 ,000, I can have 1 ,000. Right?

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And actually the mantles are just being passed

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down, and so there's got to be some other people

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that will pick it up. The challenge I've had

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right now, I've noticed, I've had two times in

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12 weeks that I haven't been able to do the call.

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So I notice, like, I'm really not doing a very

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good job with respect to training somebody up

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to take. to do it when I can't do it. In other

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words, to be me and to do it the way I would

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want them to do it or the way, you know what

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I mean? My spirit or the anointing that's on

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our team. So, you know, but it's been good either

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way. The two times that I wasn't there, it was

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really, really good. It was just different. So

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anyway, I just want to invite you and you could

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come anytime. I'm doing it every Thursday. We're

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not going to stop until... You know, the Holy

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Ghost tells us to stop. The other thing I wanted

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to just let you know, I only brought 36, and

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we may have more here. If it's a problem, I can

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always bring them next week. How many? 32, I

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think, four. Anyway, this is a book that I wrote

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that I felt, and we're going to talk about this

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tonight, Receive the Steps to the Prayer of Faith.

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You're welcome to have it. It's my gift to you.

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I don't know how we're going to do it because

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we definitely have more than 34 people here.

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So at the end of the service, you could come

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up and grab your copy, and then whoever didn't

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get a copy, we can just figure it out. We're

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growing here. I think this is really good. I'm

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very excited about what God is doing and how

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he's taking us and teaching us and training us.

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I don't believe we're going to stop for the summer.

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I don't know where Pastor is, but we're not going

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to stop for the summer. We stopped one year,

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and it kind of affected the momentum. So we'll

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just see whatever Pastor wants us to do. That's

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what we'll do. So I'm going to go ahead and say

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a quick prayer. Father, I know that you're here

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with us, and I know that your anointing is here

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with us. And you said in your word that the anointing

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that is here will teach us, lead us, guide us.

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So we put this service tonight into your hands,

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and we say, even as the disciples said, Lord,

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teach us to pray. Amen. So we're going to do

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something a little different tonight. I know

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we say that every month. We're going to do something

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a little different. But I really try my best

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to be led by the Spirit of God so that we meet

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your needs and so that you get exactly what you

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need with respect to prayer. And that's the focus.

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The purpose of this meeting is prayer teaching

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and prayer example. So I want you to open, if

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you have your Bibles, to Luke 11. I know you

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guys have phones. Just please don't be distracted.

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I like that people have Bibles again. People

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are starting to bring their Bibles back to church.

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Don't you think that's good? Because, you know,

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if you use your phone to get a text message,

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you get distracted, and it's a problem. If you're

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on a dating app, then you get a notification.

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You know, Barry likes you or Susie likes you,

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and then you're going into your day. It's just

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ridiculous. We're distracted. So I'm happy to

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see that you guys have your Bibles. So it says

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here in Luke 11. It says here in verse 1, Now

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it came to pass that as he was praying in a certain

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place, when he, speaking of Jesus, ceased, that

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one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach

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us to pray. Now I want you to notice I didn't

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say, Lord, teach us to prophesy. We have a lot

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of that, don't we? Yeah. Lord, teach us how to

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operate in the gifts of the Spirit. Lord, teach

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us how to cast out devils. Lord, teach us how

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to make the right decisions. No, they said, Lord,

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you know, teach us to pray. I personally believe

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that if I was the disciples and I saw that much

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success in Jesus' ministry, I would ask him probably

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the same exact question. Because Jesus, by example,

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was a man of prayer. He would disappear all night

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into the mountains. He would pray all night.

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He would, you know, he was a man of prayer. And

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the disciples watched him. And they saw that

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he had a relationship with his father. That no

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matter how powerful he was, he still made time

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for the practice of prayer. And he still made

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time to seek the face of his father. So they

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said to him, Lord. We've been watching you. Now,

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we want to be effective in prayer. So, Lord,

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teach us how to pray. Okay? Now, let's go on.

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Now, the very first thing he said in verse 2

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is, and he said unto them, when you pray, say,

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our Father in heaven. The very first thing that

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Jesus introduced the disciples to was a Father

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in heaven. He didn't say, when you pray, pray

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to the names of God that you're familiar with

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from the old covenant. He didn't say, when you

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pray, pray to Jehovah Jireh. Pray to Jehovah

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Nisi. Pray to Jehovah Sidkenu. Pray to Adonai.

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He didn't teach them about prayer by introducing

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them to a God on a first name basis. Right? He

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introduced them to a relational God. A God who

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is your father. A God who is an ever -present

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help in the time of need. A father to his sons

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and his daughters. And so he said, so when you

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pray, Jesus hadn't yet been glorified. There

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were no sons and daughters. Jesus was the firstborn

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from the dead. There was not sons and daughters

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as of yet. But he said, so when you pray, this

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is how you pray. You say, our Father. which art

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in heaven. So I love that because Jesus introduced

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the disciples to a relational God, to a father,

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and he was already starting to teach them that

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you will be my sons and daughters, and I will

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be a father unto you. I don't know about you,

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but that makes a big difference in our prayer

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life. When you know that God Is your father.

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Now here's the problem. Some may have had, maybe

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even in this room, a very bad relationship with

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their earthly father. Right? So from a psychological,

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emotional... standpoint, when you hear the word

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father, you get afraid and you pull back because

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you think that God is your father is like my

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earthly father who was abusive, who was mean,

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who any time I didn't perform the way I should

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perform, he'd withdraw his love. And so therefore,

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there's this area I feel in our hearts and minds

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that we have to let go of the past and renew

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our mind. to the word of God, to who God truly

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is in his character. And God, Jesus said, I'll

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never leave you. God said, I'll never forsake

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you. I'm with you always. By grace are you saved

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through faith. It's not by works. It's not by

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what you do. It's not by performance. I love

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you with an everlasting love. You can't earn

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my love. I am your father. You are my son. You

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are my daughter. And relationally, we will always

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be connected. So he said to them, he said, when

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you pray, say, our Father in heaven. You know,

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I love that, too, because, you know, your real

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father is God the Father in heaven. And your

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true home is actually heaven. Just having that

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mindset is very life -changing and life -altering.

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It causes us to live our lives differently when

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you have that mindset. The Bible says, what is

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your life? It is but a vapor. It appears for

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a while and then vanishes away. This life is

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very temporary. My daughter said to me tonight,

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she said, Mommy, you do a lot of things you don't

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feel like doing. And I said, yeah, because I'm

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not living for this world. I'm living in the

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light of eternity. And I told God a long time

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ago, you've been so good to me. And this isn't

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works. This is my heart. You've been so good

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to me. I want to make sure I'm faithful to you

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and give back because you've been so good to

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me. Okay. So anyway, so our father in heaven,

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then he goes on. He says, hallowed be your name.

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Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth

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as it is in heaven. Give us, everyone say us,

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day by day, our, say our, our daily bread and

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forgive us our sins. For we also forgive everyone

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who is indebted to us and lead us, not into temptation,

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but deliver us from evil. I'm going to put it

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to you like this, and this is what we're going

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to teach on tonight, and I've never taught this

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before in prayer service. I look at this particular

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passage of Scripture, and I know a lot of us

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pray the Our Father multiple hundreds and probably

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thousands of times, some of us growing up. But

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I want you to look at this Scripture in the light

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of how to get your own needs met. Because God

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is very interested in supplying and providing

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all of your needs according to his riches in

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glory by Christ Jesus. There's also another verse

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that's coming up in my heart. You have not because

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you. ask not, but here lies the problem at times.

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Sometimes when we ask, we ask amiss, and we don't

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pray rightly, and therefore we don't see results

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in our prayers. We've said this before. We'll

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say it again. It's not the subject, but there's

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all different kinds of prayer. And I really felt

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the heart of God for us, for you tonight, in

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that he wants to provide for you. He wants to

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take care of you. We know we've done a lot of

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the prayer of intercession in these services.

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We know that. Okay? And we know that the Bible

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says, when Job prayed for his friends, God turned

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his captivity. And God gave Job twice as much

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as he had before. We know that when you pray

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for other people, God turns around and takes

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care of you. But there is a place where we've

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got to stand and we've got to pray and we've

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got to ask and we've got to believe and we've

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got to receive. And that's where God is with

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us tonight. So he said this. He said, if you

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have need of bread, Ask the Father. Give us this

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day our daily bread. Now with that in mind, let's

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go ahead and let's go over to Mark 11, 23 and

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24. I don't think I ever taught this before here.

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Mark 11, 23 and 24. Maybe I should turn there.

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Sometimes I put it in my notes and sometimes

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I don't. There's such an anointing in these services

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once a month. Do you notice that? Do you know

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that you could be more anointed or less anointed?

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Do you know that there's such an anointing on

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these services? Because you guys are so hungry.

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And not only that, but God is very, very eager

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to teach us how to pray. Because that's, to me,

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it's not just hearing the word and having teaching.

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It's having your own personal, intimate, devotional

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time with God. And that's why we said concerning

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these services that what we teach here, what

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we do here should carry over into your personal

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devotional time with him. It's not just once

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a month on a Friday night. It's every day. That

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scripture we just read said, give us this day

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our daily bread. Every day God has bread for

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you. Every day God wants to speak to you. It

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may not be some supernatural, but every day we

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can pick up a devotional and we can read the

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word of the Lord for us for that day. Okay? So

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Mark 11, 23 and 24 says, Jesus said to them,

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have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you,

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whoever says to this mountain, be removed and

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be cast into the sea. and does not doubt in his

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heart, but believe that those things which he

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says will be done, he will have whatever he says.

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And verse 24 says, Therefore I say to you, to

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who? To us tonight. This is your daily bread.

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This is the word of the Lord for us tonight.

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Therefore, I say to you, whatever things you

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ask, when you pray, believe that you receive

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them and you will have them. And then, of course,

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he talks about forgiveness, which is at last

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or least, but we should, when we pray, make sure

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all is well. So this prayer is what I call the

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prayer, Kennedy Hagan actually called it, the

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prayer of faith. How to get your own needs met.

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It's not praying the prayer of intercession.

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The prayer of intercession like we did for the

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Easter services and all over the place, how many

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of you saw that many people were getting saved?

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Fill the Holy Ghost. What do you think that was?

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That was prayer opening up the door for God to

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work. That was your prayers, the effectual fervent

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prayer of a righteous man and woman availing

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much. Right? So that's the prayer of intercession.

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But this is the prayer of faith where you get

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your own needs met. And it's different than the

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prayer of intercession because in the prayer

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of intercession, Father, in the name of Jesus,

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we pray that you'd open up the eyes of their

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understanding. And we pray that twice in a row.

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I prayed it on all my prayer calls. We prayed

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all the time. You could pray that prayer for

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years. It's a continual in prayer. But when it

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comes to getting your own needs met and praying

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the prayer of faith for yourself, if you pray

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a prayer for a need to be met, whether it be

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a job, a car, whatever the case may be, if you

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pray that same prayer twice for yourself, you

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pray the first time in unbelief. I know everybody's

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like, oh. Okay? So how do we get our prayers

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answered if we have a need? Number one. Isn't

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this good tonight? Find a verse or promise that

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is the answer to the thing that you have need

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of. Now, this is where your journal comes in.

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Get a journal. Write down your promises. If you

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need a job, you can go to Philippians 419. My

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God will supply all my needs according to his

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riches in glory by Christ Jesus. If you need

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a car, Right? My God will supply all my needs.

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I mean, that verse just covers it all. Right?

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So you have his promise. This is God's promise.

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Now, all of the promises of God are yes. And

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amen. You can stand on that promise according

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to Matthew 7, 24 and 25. No matter what comes,

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I already prayed. I already have the promise.

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God said he would answer my prayer. Well, what

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about the time frame between the time you prayed

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it and then the time that the answer comes? There's

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always this gap. Are you listening? That's why

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it's very important after you've prayed your

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prayer and stood on the promise, you hold fast

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the confession of your faith without doubting.

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Don't negate your prayers by wrong speaking.

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There is just something to be said about the

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teachings of Kenneth E. Hagin that laid the foundation,

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and I think some of us have let it slip, me included.

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Okay? So find a promise that meets the need.

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Agree with that promise. Present it before the

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throne. Let your requests be made known unto

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God, your Father. Right? Who's not withholding

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anything from you. And then after you've prayed

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the prayer, just watch what you say. Believe

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that you receive it and you'll have it. This

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is where faith comes in. Faith believes before

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it sees. It's not the Thomas kind of faith. I'll

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believe it. when I see it. Well, blessed are

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those that believe and haven't seen, right? That's

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why faith is a force and it goes, it's in the

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unseen realm. And once you've released your faith

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and it is activated, don't negate it by what

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you say out of your mouth, no matter how tempted

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you may be. Are you listening? leaving God for

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a husband. Hey, come on, we're family. Don't

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look at me like I'm not human. Very human. Two

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are better than one. And by the way, I heard

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that audibly on the inside of me one morning

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when I stepped out of my bed, put my left foot

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on the floor, and I heard audibly on the inside

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of me, two are better than one because you have

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a better or greater reward. So I just believe

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that I receive and I do natural things, you know,

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and I wait on the Lord. But I believe that I

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receive and I believe that God has it. Why am

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I saying all my stuff? Because I'm human. God's

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got a guy for me. But if I get a check in my

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spirit, now this is a very human level. If I

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get a check in my spirit, follow after peace

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and you're following after God. There might be

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somebody in here who needs to hear this and I

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get to tell you all my business. It's usually

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how it works. You know that, right? That's always

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how it is. So that's the promise. So I believe

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that I receive and I let the peace of God that

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passes all understanding guard my heart and my

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mind. I don't worry. I don't fret. I don't have

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any anxiety about anything. I trust in the Lord

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with all of my heart. I lean not to my own understanding,

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but I acknowledge him in any person that comes

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across my path who might be interested. I acknowledge

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him. If I get a check, then goodbye. If you're

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a weirdo, goodbye. Why am I saying all this?

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Believe that you receive it and you will have

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it. So that's my promise. Two are better than

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one. There's so many promises in the word of

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God for what is going to meet your need. Are

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you listening? Okay, so find the promise that

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meets your need. Here's another one, 3 John 2,

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1. Beloved, I pray that in every way you may

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succeed and prosper and be in good health physically,

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even. Just as I know your soul prospers spiritually.

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That's another translation. That's amplified.

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So, Kenneth E. Hagin got healed off of this scripture

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physically. See, everything you have need of

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is in the word of God. He got healed physically

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because of this scripture. He said, Lord, you

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know that it's my desire to be healed physically,

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to get up and to walk and not be paralyzed and

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laying on this bed. And he prayed this prayer.

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He believed that he received. And he laid there

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in the bed. And then one day he said, why am

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I not healed? And the Lord spoke to him and said,

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a healed person doesn't lay in bed. A healed

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person gets up and gets out of the bed. So he

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put action to his faith. And so he put action,

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and he moved a little bit. He started moving,

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and the power of God hit him. He felt the virtue

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of the Holy Ghost, and the power of God hit his

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body. In his case, electricity. Some people feel

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something. Some people don't. We can't put God

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in a box. And he said he was instantaneously

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healed. He prayed this prayer, the prayer of

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faith, for his physical healing. Even in the

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little things, like a parking space. I'm telling

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you. Can I get a witness? Even I cannot parallel

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park. It is a thing. It's a problem. Because

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if I go somewhere, I have to be like, all right,

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if I'm going to a certain restaurant, do I have

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to parallel park? Because then it's a problem.

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So I call ahead. So believe God, even for a parking

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space, is exercising your faith. Don't rely on

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everybody else to do it for you. You can do it

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yourself. Well, you know, my husband, he's really

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strong. My husband, you know, he'll do it. No,

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you have your own walk with God. You have your

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own walk of faith. Without faith, it is impossible

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to please God. So exercise your own faith. You'd

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be surprised. You know, the New Agers, they think

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they got it all going on. Oh, you release this

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and the spirit and this and that. No, we have

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it better than the New Agers because they got

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it from us. Release your faith and believe God

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for a promise. Believe God for a parking space.

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Here's something I did when I first went to Rhema.

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When I first went to Rhema, I was 19 years old.

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I didn't have any money. And nowadays I look

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back, I go, oh my God, I would never do that.

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What was I thinking? I wasn't thinking. That's

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the best part in some regards. Are you listening?

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Sometimes we lean to our own understanding and

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we talk ourselves out of it. Out of the promise

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of God. That's why I tell people, everyone who

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asks for the baptism of the Holy Spirit receives.

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He that seeks, finds. When people start getting

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into the thinking realm, they get out of the

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spirit realm. They don't always release their

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prayer language. So I tell them, stop thinking

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and start drinking. So I had $50 in my pocket.

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God called me to Rhema. I did have some friends.

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You know, I wasn't. I was pretty stable back

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then. More so now. But, you know, I didn't make

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such a rash, crazy decision. Did have friends.

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Did have some connections. I had $50. I went

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there believing God. Believing God. Because,

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you know what, sometimes I think it's better

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when we're not schooled in a lot of unbelief.

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Because we just have that childlike faith. And

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so I got involved in this little church. I found

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this little church. I don't even know how it

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all happened. But I prayed a prayer of faith

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like this one we're talking about. I said, Lord,

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I didn't have a car either. I said, Lord, I need

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a car. That's my need. So I'm asking you for

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a car, and I'd like it to be little. I was really

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specific. I want it to be blue, and I want it

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to get good gas mileage. Maybe I should do that

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with the guy. what I need. I put that part of

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it in God's hands. Thank you so much for tuning

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