Prophetically Praying Parents - Session 2 | Part 1

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You pray it and he can answer it.

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The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man

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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.

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Goes into the hearts of the people,

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doesn't return void, it produces results.

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["The Heart of the People"]

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This is one of my favorite books

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called Focus Eliminating Distractions

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for Enhanced Spiritual Vision.

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This book was, I actually wanted to call this book

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What Are You Looking At?

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but the publisher had a better title.

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But it comes from Hebrews chapter 12, verse one and two.

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Looking unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith

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and turning away and looking away

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from anything that would distract.

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So this particular book, God told me to stop traveling.

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He wanted to talk to me about some things.

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So for two and a half years I was in the presence of God

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and he taught me about multiple things,

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many of which were the distractions and the weights

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that so easily beset us and keep us from running the race.

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So I'm just gonna let you know the chapter title.

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This is actually one of my favorite books.

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Between Heaven and Earth, living from the spirit,

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hearing what's coming, zooming in, running to win.

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And then the 10 enemies of spiritual vision are offense.

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Now that was number one.

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Because so many times we're looking at our enemy

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and we're offended at our enemy

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and we got that offense before us

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and the love of God doesn't do that.

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Okay, so the love of God, offense,

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people pleasing, self absorption.

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Okay, the more we look to ourselves,

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the more we will be a crippled people.

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Right, preach it.

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I could preach this whole thing.

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The easy road, sometimes the way that God is leading us

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is not always the easiest road.

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And so many choose the easy road.

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And they don't walk in the fullness

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of the purposes of God.

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Discouragement, you know, discouragement.

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Once we've fallen into discouragement,

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we've lost our vision.

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The treasures of the world, right?

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Reliance on our own works and weariness.

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So this is Focus, one of my favorite books.

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And then Mark for Intercession,

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this is the second edition.

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This is a lot, I'm gonna share,

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we'll see how it goes today,

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but this is about the one particular prayer

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called the Prayer of Intercession.

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And I teach the reader how to pray

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for their saved loved ones,

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their unsaved loved ones, their children.

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And there's a lot that this book contains,

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preparing the way, tilling the ground,

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what the Prayer of Intercession actually produces.

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And I only, I talk about identification in intercession,

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what that is, what that feels like.

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I didn't get too much into travail in intercession,

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but in my book Contends,

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Stewarding the Hearts and Destinies of Our Children in Prayer,

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I do get into more in depth the kind of praying

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whereby you are yielding to the inner workings

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of the Holy Spirit.

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So those are just two of the books.

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I'm gonna go ahead and ask you if you have,

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I know most people don't carry Bibles anymore,

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I actually like the Bible.

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We're gonna buy the book this book,

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one for every household that's present today.

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Oh, yay. Okay, cool.

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If we don't have enough copies, then we'll get more,

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but we're gonna buy that from you today.

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Okay. One for every household that's here.

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That's awesome. Thank you, Apostle.

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Thank you. Thank you.

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I have it already.

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Thank you.

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You're seeing, there's one in my favorite book.

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You get a book.

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I actually dedicate this,

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I'm gonna read you the dedication.

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I don't wanna take too much time, but I dedicate,

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I dedicate this book to the apostolic leaders,

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prophets, and teachers of my life.

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Thank you for pointing to me and my ministry

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through your teaching, training, mentoring,

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and prophetic words.

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You have passed the baton onto me,

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and it is my hope to pass the baton

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onto the next generation of leaders.

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Amen. Amen.

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That's really what we're doing.

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You're a fire, Marty.

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Anyway, we're gonna go ahead, I can tell I'm very hyper.

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That means I have, I sense I have more

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of a teaching anointing on me,

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and I'm probably gonna talk a little fast,

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because I have a lot that I feel

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that needs to be said today into our audience.

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Just know that I love the fact that we can go live.

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We had 500 views from last week's teaching.

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Amen. Praise God.

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So, you know, the gospel of the kingdom

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shall be preached to all nations,

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and the end will come. That's right.

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So, we're reaching the world with our message,

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and one of the visions that I have in my heart

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is to teach the world how to pray.

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And I remember when I received that mantle,

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or that call, or that vision, whatever you wanna call it,

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I said to the Lord, you know, how are you gonna do that?

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And little did we know that we could do like a Facebook Live,

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or we could have this kind of venue

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with which to reach the world.

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We have multiple people that watch us online

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and listen to our podcasts from all over the world.

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So, we're not contained in one room,

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and that's what I like, about just obeying God.

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He said, you'll go wherever I tell you to go.

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You'll speak whatever I tell you to speak.

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Don't be afraid of their faces.

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God has a purpose, and God has a plan

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for each and every one of us.

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And as we just continue to yield to him,

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I think what's gonna happen is one day

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we're gonna stand before God,

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and we're gonna see all the people we touched,

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and reached, and ministered to,

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and we didn't even see them.

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Awesome.

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Right.

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So anyway, we're gonna go ahead and jump in here.

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So, I'm gonna ask you while I'm introducing the message,

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to go to Luke chapter 11 if you have a Bible.

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If you don't have a Bible, you can go into your phone,

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but you know how that is.

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Talk about, you know, distraction,

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even though that's not what this book is about.

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Stay out of your text box.

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We all know that phone's distract.

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We all know that email's distract.

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So if you go and you use your phone,

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just don't answer that text message

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when it comes down to your phone,

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the face of your phone.

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Stay with me, okay?

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I have a lot to say, and I feel like the Spirit of God

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is gonna teach us how to pray.

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Now, opening text is from Psalms 127,

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and I'm gonna give you a lot of scripture today.

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And remember, the Word of God doesn't return void,

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and I believe that what the Spirit of God is doing

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is he's not only imparting vision,

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he's imparting his Word,

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and his Word is an incorruptible seed

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that goes into your hearts.

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It doesn't return void, and it's going to produce fruit,

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and this is what we need in the day and in the hour

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that we live in.

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We need more prayer fruits.

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I was speaking to one of the people at Charisma

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a couple months ago when we were in Laguna,

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and she was teaching my assistant

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how to really, how to navigate the system

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with respect to our podcasts and our articles

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and things like that.

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And I just was listening, just to sit there and listen

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and to be present.

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At the very end of the conversation,

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she said to me, she says, you know, Margie?

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She called me Margie, Margie.

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She goes, you know, Margie?

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I said, what's Margie?

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She says, Margie.

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So she doesn't really know me personally,

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but she's listening to the podcast.

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And she said, I just want to encourage you

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that your podcast is not only doing really well,

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she said that most people in most churches today

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don't even have a prayer team anymore.

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And so she said, I just want to encourage you,

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just keep doing what you're doing.

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Again, it's not like the blind leading the blind.

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Sometimes I'm going, yeah, we get the stats,

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we know how many people are listening and so on and so forth,

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but we don't really see them.

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So I just thought that was interesting

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because I feel like the prayer movement,

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even though God's been saying he wants to ramp it up,

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I feel like COVID caused the prayer movement

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to reach a state of complacency.

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So God is stirring us back up.

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And this message of prayer is going to go into our hearts

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and it's going to be that seed and it's going to germinate.

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And I believe we're going to see more prayer fruit.

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And it's going to stir the devil.

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Yes.

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I am not quitting.

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That's right.

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I am not discouraged.

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That's right.

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We pioneered, started a pioneer of prayer movement 41 years ago

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and people were praying.

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There were houses of prayer.

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People were excited.

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But it seems like it's been the flip side of that.

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But you know what?

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It's just like the old saying, we're sin abounds, grace is

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so much more abound.

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Don't be moved by what you see.

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That's right.

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Because I believe with all of this discouragement in prayer

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and all of this lack of prayer, I

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believe we could have a flip side and suddenly God can just

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awaken people to prayer and cause a freshening

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on into following people's prayer closets individually

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and in the houses of prayer and in churches.

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Yes.

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Jesus said in his word, my house will be called a house of prayer.

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It shouldn't be just a house of teaching.

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That's right.

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We need both.

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Yeah, right.

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It's just like with the bird.

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A bird has two wings, a left and a right.

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A bird can't fly with just one wing.

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That's right.

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We need both to fly.

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Yes.

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The bird needs both to fly.

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Yes.

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And so it is in the church today.

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We've neglected our prayer life.

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And we wonder, why are we crippled?

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Because we've got to ramp up the prayer movement.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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So God is ramping me up.

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He's ramping his leaders up.

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And he's going to ramp you up.

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Yay.

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Because what starts in the pulpit gets into the people.

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That's right.

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So I'm just very excited.

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So here, let's go ahead and start.

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We're going to go and we're going to review really quick.

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I'm talking really fast.

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This is definitely an anointing because I

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don't talk fast by nature.

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Lo, there's me out there.

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Yes.

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I do not eat any chocolate.

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Yes.

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In chapter 47, verse 3 and 4 says,

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behold, children are a heritage from the Lord.

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Yes.

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For the womb is a reward.

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Amen.

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Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,

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so are the children of one's youth.

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So our children are the arrows that

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are going to be shot into the world.

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They've been raised up for such a time as this.

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They've been called.

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They've been chosen.

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He's ordained that they live in this time.

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And that's why it's important that we as praying parents

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take our place in the place of prayer.

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But the thing I feel that the Spirit of God is doing

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is he's got to teach us first how to pray as parents.

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And we're going to get into this.

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It's number one, it's not praying a one second prayer.

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Bless my child.

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No, no, no.

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We're talking about intercession.

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And number two, it's not just praying for me, my four,

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and no more.

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Right.

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Because many of you have people that

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are your children that haven't even come out of your own womb

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or out of your own lungs.

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Yes.

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Your spiritual children and God children and people

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in your spirit of influence that God is calling you

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to be a watchman over.

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And so there's a great responsibility

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on the adults that are in the earth today,

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on the spiritual mothers and fathers that

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are in the earth today.

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There's a great responsibility.

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We've got to take our place in prayer.

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Because we have not, because we ask not.

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And if we don't take our place, the enemy, Isaiah 61 through 4,

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the darkness, the gross darkness,

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is going to continue to cover the earth.

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And the glory of God is not going to arise and shine

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like it's supposed to.

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Right.

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Because we're going to talk about this,

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but prayer opens up the door for God to work.

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Yes.

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Amen.

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So we have got to take our place as mothers and fathers.

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Now, the enemy is afraid of this generation or the generations.

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I call them from the millennials down.

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So the 35-year-olds down to all the babies

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that are being born through the millennials.

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Amen.

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Are you with me?

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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OK, so the enemy is afraid of this generation

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of young people who are in the earth today.

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And we said this last week, some have even been aborted,

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thus never fulfilling their destiny.

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But they have more potential, more gifting

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than any other time in history.

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Yes.

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He is not just afraid of who they are right now.

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He is afraid of who they will become.

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That's right.

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Because a lot of these young people,

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and I'm seeing this as I speak, they're in a forming process.

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And they're being formed.

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They were not only formed in their mother's womb

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to live in this time, but they're

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being formed now as young people, as millennials,

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and as the Z generation, and then the children that

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are coming up.

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God is forming them, and he's preparing them.

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I believe he's preparing them for revival.

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I believe he's preparing them to be

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used in supernatural ways, just like it

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was in the Book of Acts.

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Do you know that the Book of Acts

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is the only book in the Bible that doesn't have

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an amen at the end of it?

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That's right.

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I'll just let alone going.

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It's still being written.

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All right, great.

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I took a preaching class while my kids were in school,

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because I wanted to sharpen my gift and perfect it,

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even though I was already in ministry years before,

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while I had that time off raising my kids.

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I took a preaching class.

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And I got so much better at public speaking.

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It really helped me a lot.

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But one of the things they said, they

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said, sometimes you just need to stop and let the people breathe.

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I breathe.

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You good?

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You good?

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Yeah.

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We're good.

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Ready.

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Can we talk about praying for our kids?

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Let's just establish a foundation.

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Prayer opens up the door for God to work.

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That's actually a Joyce Meyer saying,

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I got it from her, and it's mine now.

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We're not going to get into the reasons why,

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because that's not my thing today.

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Prayer opens up the door for God to work.

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We are the ones that have the authority here on this earth.

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Because Jesus took back the keys of the dominion,

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and he handed it to the church.

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Now he said, now you go, and in my name, you use my authority.

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And if you don't, use our authority.

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Again, the enemy is just going to keep running rampant.

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I just keep hearing this in my spirit.

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James 4, 2, we have not because we ask not.

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And sometimes when we pray, we ask a miss,

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and we don't pray the right way.

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So prayer opens up the door for God to work.

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James 5, 16 says that the effectual, amplified,

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the earnest, heartfelt, continued prayer of a righteous man

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makes tremendous power available,

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dynamic in its working.

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That's good.

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That's a good translation.

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The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man.

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What have all these issues?

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Of a righteous man.

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You don't even know.

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A righteous man.

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When you became a new creation in Christ Jesus,

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all things passed away.

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All things became new.

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And you became the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

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So when you stand, Hebrews 4, 16,

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before the throne room of grace, you're

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standing complete in Him who is the head of all principality

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and power.

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And you're standing washed in the blood of the Lamb

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and standing completely righteous before the throne

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room.

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You're standing before God with the full armor of God.

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Are you listening?

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And you are standing in Christ.

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Here's the interesting thing about that.

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Do you know how Jesus, when he prayed to his father,

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he said, Father, when he was raised Lazarus from the dead?

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How do you remember that story?

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And the Bible says, this is a whole other message.

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He whacked.

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He groaned in his spirit.

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And he was troubled.

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That's a huge message right there.

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And he said to the Father, he said, Father, I thank you

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that you have heard me.

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That's right.

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And you hear me always when I pray.

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That's right.

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So when you stand before the throne room of God,

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the throne room of grace, you're standing

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in the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

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And he hears you always when you pray.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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Because it's not about us.

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It's about the cross and the work of redemption

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and our right standing with God.

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So don't tell me that you're not good enough to pray

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and have your prayers answered.

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That's right.

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We don't want to.

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That's a crock of garbage.

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Yes.

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Right.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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I'll forgive you.

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And other things.

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And I pray, that's the devil.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Because Romans 8.1 says, there is therefore now

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no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus.

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Right.

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There's no condemnation.

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So when you go into the place of prayer

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and you get bombarded with warfare

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and you get these thoughts about all about you,

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that self-absorption, by the way,

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you become crippled in your prayer life.

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And you just stop praying.

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That's the devil.

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That's warfare.

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Right.

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Remember who you are.

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That's right.

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How do you remember that story of the lion king?

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My favorite.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Love that one.

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I love it.

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When Simba ran away from God.

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He was like the prodigal son.

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Ran from his calling, ran from his purpose,

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ran to the mountains, ran away.

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And then finally, he gets apprehended.

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Everyone say apprehended.

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Apprehended.

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And then somebody, I guess that little guy,

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Tom, what he was, but he was something,

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told him to look into the water.

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And he looks into the water and he sees his reflection.

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Our reflection is in Christ Jesus.

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That's right.

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It's not about us.

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We hide behind the cross.

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Hallelujah.

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And he saw his reflection.

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And then his father spoke from heaven

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and said, Simba, you know.

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What?

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You have forgotten me.

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What do you mean, have forgotten me?

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He said, remember who you are.

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That's right.

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You are my son and the one true king.

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People, remember who you are.

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We stand before the Son of God.

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You are in Christ Jesus.

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Your father is your heavenly father, your father God.

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And you are complete in him as his child.

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He doesn't see all of this.

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He sees his son and he sees that you have clean hands

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in the pure heart.

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Yes.

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Catherine Coleman once said, the greatest power

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given to any individual is the power of prayer.

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You know, Catherine Coleman had a miracle ministry.

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Lord, revive us.

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My prayer is Acts 1044.

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While Peter speaks the word, the Holy Ghost

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just starts to fall on people, like in the days

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of Catherine Coleman.

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Anyway, Leway Brownlow once said,

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let us not neglect prayer just because we do not fully

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comprehend the infinite power of the God at whose throne

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we kneel.

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I do not know everything about gravity, but I know it works.

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Right.

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That's true.

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That's good.

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It does.

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And that's true.

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I love it.

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The Circle Maker by Mark Patterson,

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if you have not read that book, I know you're a reader.

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That is an outstanding book.

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Yes.

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He said, Mark Patterson said in his book, The Circle Maker,

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he said, each prayer is like a seed

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that gets planted into the ground.

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He also said, you will never be a perfect parent.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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That's true.

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But you can be a praying parent.

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That's right.

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Amen.

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He said, prayer is your highest privilege as a parent.

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Praying turns ordinary parents into prophets

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who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren,

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and every generation that follows.

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We're going to talk about prophetically praying,

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meaning what a prayer alert looks like,

541
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,640
and the word of knowledge and the word of wisdom

542
00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,600
that can actually operate in your home as a parent.

543
00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,120
That makes you perfect.

544
00:20:27,120 --> 00:20:29,520
That's right.

545
00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:32,920
Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy

546
00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:34,560
you can leave.

547
00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:38,160
Now, I'm going to go ahead, because I felt led on Saturday

548
00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:42,120
morning when I was preparing to go ahead and highlight

549
00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:44,280
the different kinds of prayer.

550
00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:47,720
There are different kinds of prayer.

551
00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:48,240
Amen.

552
00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:48,960
Yep.

553
00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:49,760
Hello.

554
00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:50,400
Yes.

555
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,280
There are different kinds of prayer.

556
00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:54,400
Let's hear it.

557
00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:58,120
Ephesians 6.18 says, praying always amplified

558
00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:01,040
with all manner of prayer.

559
00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:04,320
There's all different kinds of prayer.

560
00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:05,360
Right.

561
00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:09,280
Another translation just says all kinds of prayer.

562
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:13,440
The Godspeed translation says, use every kind of prayer

563
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:14,680
and entreaty.

564
00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:18,600
And at every opportunity, pray in the spirit.

565
00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,920
So I'm going to highlight the different kinds of prayer.

566
00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:23,400
And the reason I'm going to do it

567
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:27,000
is because I'm going to slightly explain to you

568
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,360
that there are different rules that govern

569
00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:32,440
different kinds of prayer.

570
00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:32,920
Cool.

571
00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:33,560
Yep.

572
00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:34,920
Amen.

573
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:35,440
Cool.

574
00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:36,200
Are you breathing?

575
00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:36,720
Yes.

576
00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:37,600
We're ready.

577
00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:38,440
OK.

578
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:42,520
So for example, in the natural world of sports,

579
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,880
you can't play hockey with football rules.

580
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:46,800
Right.

581
00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:48,400
You're not going to score.

582
00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:49,240
That explains it.

583
00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:49,760
Right.

584
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,720
I really want to learn how to play pickleball.

585
00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:55,720
I really want to learn how to play pickleball.

586
00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:56,680
My husband loves it.

587
00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:57,640
I mean, I want to learn.

588
00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:58,480
He loves pickleball.

589
00:21:58,480 --> 00:21:59,920
Yeah, I want to learn how to do it.

590
00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:01,800
I don't know what it is, but I got all the equipment

591
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:02,400
for my birthday.

592
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,400
Badminton.

593
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:09,080
But you cannot play hockey with football rules.

594
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:10,320
You're not going to score.

595
00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,320
You're not going to hit the mark.

596
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:17,240
And so it is in praying different kinds of prayers.

597
00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:18,600
But here's the beauty.

598
00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,240
The Bible, the Word of God, is the rule book.

599
00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:22,600
That's right.

600
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:23,200
OK.

601
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,080
So he clearly has shown us how to pray.

602
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,240
And I'm only going to highlight because I only

603
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,440
have two more sessions here.

604
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,480
Number one, now let me just say this before I get into it.

605
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:37,120
A balanced Christian will pray all kinds, all manner,

606
00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:39,320
all kinds of prayer.

607
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,120
If you're a balanced Christian, you

608
00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:44,360
should be praying all these different kinds of prayer,

609
00:22:44,360 --> 00:22:46,400
not just one.

610
00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:49,480
So number one, there's the prayer of faith.

611
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,200
Mark 11, 23, and 24.

612
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:55,880
That scripture says, what things soever you desire,

613
00:22:55,880 --> 00:23:00,800
when you pray, believe that you receive it,

614
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,160
and you will have it.

615
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:08,120
The prayer of faith is praying for your own needs.

616
00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:08,640
Yep.

617
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,040
For example, when I first started Bible school,

618
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:12,280
I was going to Rome.

619
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,200
I was 19 years old.

620
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,320
And I didn't have transportation.

621
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,880
I didn't have the support of my parents, my family,

622
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:21,280
they did not want me to go to Bible school.

623
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:22,120
They didn't understand.

624
00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:23,960
And so they would just say, let me rough it.

625
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:26,400
I think sometimes we need to let some of these kids rough it.

626
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:27,920
I think we're doing them a disservice

627
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:29,240
by always handing everything.

628
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:29,920
That was free.

629
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:30,960
I just had to say that.

630
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:31,480
That's good.

631
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:32,480
I received it.

632
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:33,480
You took it like that.

633
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:35,480
That's still a hard time.

634
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:36,480
I went to high school.

635
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:37,480
I tried to do that.

636
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:38,480
Tonight, you outside.

637
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:40,480
Tonight, you're going to turn a little coffee.

638
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:41,480
See, he's a prophet, you know.

639
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:42,480
24 times.

640
00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,480
That's very wild comments.

641
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,480
But I didn't have a car.

642
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,480
So I probably would have been a prophet.

643
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,280
So I prayed one day, and I was a brand new Christian.

644
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:52,960
And I said, Lord, I need a car.

645
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:54,160
I wanted to be middle.

646
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:55,640
I wanted to be blue.

647
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,000
And I wanted to get good gas mileage.

648
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:02,840
Two weeks later, this pastor's wife came up to me and said,

649
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,240
do you need a car?

650
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:05,560
And I said, yes.

651
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,100
She says, well, we have somebody that

652
00:24:07,100 --> 00:24:08,400
wants to give their car away.

653
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,080
I said, great.

654
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,040
How did you pray?

655
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,680
I said, Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus,

656
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,800
I petition you, and I'm asking you for a car.

657
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:17,840
I need a car.

658
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,760
And I just believe that I received it in Jesus' name.

659
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:25,680
I didn't pray, if it be your will, at the end of that prayer.

660
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:26,800
I need a car.

661
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,240
How am I going to get to school?

662
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:29,040
And what else?

663
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:30,800
The Bible says, beloved, above all,

664
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,440
I wish that you prospered me in health,

665
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,320
even as your soul prospers.

666
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,920
I've never seen the righteous forsaken or what.

667
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,160
They're seed out begging for bread.

668
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:41,480
So I knew it was God's will.

669
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,840
So I didn't pray at the end, if it be your will.

670
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,400
And so long story short, I ended up

671
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:49,080
at the house of this particular family.

672
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:50,240
And they had a car.

673
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,140
For me, it was blue.

674
00:24:52,140 --> 00:24:53,000
It was little.

675
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,960
It was kind of junky.

676
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,760
And it was stick shift.

677
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,480
So I had to learn how to do stick shift.

678
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,600
And the fact that it was junky didn't bother me,

679
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,440
because that's where my level of faith was at.

680
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:06,240
Right.

681
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:07,320
That's right.

682
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:08,320
Right.

683
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:09,800
But at least something materialized.

684
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:10,640
Yeah, you got a car.

685
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:11,160
I praise God.

686
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:12,160
I got a car.

687
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:13,160
I was so lucky.

688
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:14,160
And you got a stick shift.

689
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:14,680
Exactly.

690
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,440
So I prayed the prayer of faith.

691
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:21,720
Number two, there's the prayer of dedication and consecration.

692
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,840
This is the prayer where you pray, not my will,

693
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:27,560
your will be done in my life.

694
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:28,080
That's right.

695
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:33,080
So for, you know, so and this prayer is repetitive.

696
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,480
You could pray it over and over and over and over,

697
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,560
whereby with the prayer of faith,

698
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,160
you prayed a second time for that same request.

699
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,400
You prayed the first time in unbelief.

700
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:43,960
Right.

701
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,480
Yeah.

702
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:47,280
You all with me?

703
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:48,000
Yeah.

704
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:48,480
OK.

705
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,200
So the prayer of dedication is like when

706
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,360
Jesus was in the garden of his sonomy.

707
00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:54,240
He was at a crossroads.

708
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,160
His flesh didn't want to go to the cross,

709
00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,920
but his spirit said, for this purpose you were born.

710
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:02,440
And so this is the kind of prayer

711
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:07,080
whereby you pray when you're in a conflict between your soul

712
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:07,920
and your spirit.

713
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:09,640
Your heart's telling you one thing,

714
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,080
and your soul is telling you another thing.

715
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,200
And this is the kind of prayer that you pray to get everything

716
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,280
into alignment.

717
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,440
Remember, the scripture says, I will cause your thoughts

718
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,920
to become agreeable with my thoughts.

719
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,120
Then your plans will succeed.

720
00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:27,360
And so I pray this prayer often.

721
00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:31,120
You know, you'd be surprised at the stage I'm at right now.

722
00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:34,720
But I just pray this prayer, you know,

723
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,440
when I just want what God wants for my life.

724
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:40,440
You know what's best for me, Father?

725
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:44,400
I just lay this down at your feet, not my will.

726
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,200
Your will be done in my life.

727
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,680
And then as I pray that, there's an alignment

728
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,760
that takes place in my spirit and my soul

729
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:55,240
because it's surrendering to him.

730
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,280
He said in that book, and our sister said,

731
00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:00,000
it's the place and the prayer of surrender.

732
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,760
And so when Jesus came up out of the garden,

733
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,520
he prayed that prayer three times.

734
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:05,840
He came up, and what happened?

735
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,240
He was strengthened, and he was ready to do

736
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:09,480
the will of Father.

737
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,160
But here's something else, just wanna throw this in here.

738
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,760
He set in motion the will of God for his life.

739
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:17,240
Yeah, that's good.

740
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:18,960
Because all of a sudden, everything just started

741
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:19,800
to work together.

742
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:20,640
Right.

743
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:21,640
And then manifest, okay?

744
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:22,840
Let's keep going.

745
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:23,920
There's the prayer of worship.

746
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:25,160
We did that today.

747
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:29,760
John 4, 21 through 24, Acts 13, one through four, okay?

748
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,440
Worship is where we worship him in spirit and in truth.

749
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:37,600
Our longing and our thoughts and our spirit, soul and body,

750
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,000
we love him with all of our heart, all of our soul,

751
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,920
all of our might, and we're worshiping him

752
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,000
for just who he is.

753
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:45,920
Yep.

754
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:50,600
And it's a place where you complete your intentions on him.

755
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:51,440
Yeah.

756
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:52,280
Okay?

757
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,920
So worship, we know, is a very powerful kind of prayer.

758
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:56,320
Then there's the prayer of agreement,

759
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,240
Matthew 18, 19 through 20.

760
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,920
And that's, if two of you shall agree on earth

761
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,920
as touching anything, it shall be done for them

762
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:06,080
by my Father in heaven.

763
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,040
If I need somebody to agree with me,

764
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,200
I'm gonna call my friends and I'm gonna say,

765
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:11,640
I know you have the faith in this,

766
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,040
but you just come into agreement with me.

767
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:14,880
Yes, amen.

768
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,440
And one will chase a thousand to flight,

769
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:17,840
two will put 10,000.

770
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:18,680
Amen. That's right.

771
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,960
So there's power in agreement.

772
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,800
Like our sisters prayed one for each other.

773
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:24,640
Yeah. Okay?

774
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,080
It's the prayer of agreement.

775
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:26,920
That's right.

776
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:28,840
Brother Hagen said, remember, he said he used to drive,

777
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:30,360
I don't know how many hundreds of miles

778
00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:31,960
to go be with the good ones,

779
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,640
to just to get them to agree with him in prayer.

780
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,240
There's something about the power of agreement.

781
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,080
Thank you so much for tuning in to today's podcast.

782
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,240
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783
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,000
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784
00:28:46,000 --> 00:29:07,000
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