The Art of Intercession | Love & Unity 🙏💙

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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. Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus,

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of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister.

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It was that Mary... who anointed the Lord with

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fragrant oil and wiped his feet with her hair,

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whose brother Lazarus was sick. Therefore the

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sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, him

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who you love is sick. When Jesus heard that,

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he said, This sickness is not unto death, but

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for the glory of God, that the Son of God may

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be glorified through it. Now Jesus loved Martha

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and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard

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that he was sick, he stayed two more days in

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the place where he was. Then after this, he said

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to the disciples, let us go to Judea again for

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the sake of time. We're going to jump over into

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verse 11 because the disciples asked him some

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questions that are irrelevant to the message.

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Then these things he said, and said after that,

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he said to them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but

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I go that I may wake him up. Then his disciples

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said, Lord, if he sleeps, he will get rest well.

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However, Jesus spoke of his death. but they thought

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that he was speaking about his rest in the sleep.

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Then Jesus said to them plainly, Lazarus is dead,

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and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there,

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that you may believe. Nevertheless, let us go

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to him. Then Thomas, who was called the twin,

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said to his fellow disciples, Let us go also,

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that we may die with him. So when Jesus came,

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he found that he had already been in the tomb

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four days. Very impossible situation. Now Bethany

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was near Jerusalem, about two miles away. And

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many of the Jews had joined the women around

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Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their

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brother. Then Martha, as soon as she heard that

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Jesus was coming, went and met him, but Mary

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was sitting in the house. Now Mary said to Jesus,

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Lord, if you had been here, my brother would

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not have died. But even now I know that whatever

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you ask of God, God will give you. Jesus said

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to her, your brother will rise again. Martha

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said to him, I know that he will rise again in

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the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said

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to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He

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who believes in me, though he may die, yet he

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shall live. And whoever lives and believes in

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me will not die. Do you believe this? She said

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to him, please make sure everybody's on mute.

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She said to him, yes, Lord, I believe you are

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the Christ, the son of God. who is to come into

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the world. And when she had said these things,

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she went her way and secretly called Mary, her

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sister, saying, The teacher has come and is calling

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for you. As soon as she heard that, she arose

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quickly and came to him. Now Jesus had not yet

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come into the town, but was in the place where

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Martha met him. Then the Jews who were with her

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in the house and comforting her when they saw

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that Mary rose up quickly and went out and followed

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her, saying, She is going to the tomb to weep

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there. Then when Mary came where Jesus was and

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saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to

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him, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would

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not have died. Therefore, when Jesus saw her

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weeping, And the Jews who came with her, weeping,

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he groaned in the spirit and was troubled. And

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he said, Where have you laid him? And they said

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to him, Lord, come and see. Jesus wept. Then

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the Jews said, See how he loved him. And some

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of them said, Could not this man who opened the

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eyes of the blind also have kept this man from

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dying? Then Jesus again. groaning in himself,

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came to the tomb. It was a cave and a stone lay

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against it. Jesus said, take away the stone.

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Martha, the sister of him who is dead, said to

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him, Lord, by this time there is a stench for

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he has been dead four days. Jesus said to her,

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did I not say to you that if you would believe

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you would see the glory of God? Then they took

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away the stone from the place. where the dead

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man was lying, and Jesus lifted up his eyes,

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and he said, Father, I thank you that you have

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heard me, and I know that you hear me always.

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But because of the people who are standing by,

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I said this, that they may believe that you sent

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me. Now when he had said these things, he cried

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with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he

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who had died came out bound hand and foot with

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grave clothes and his face was wrapped with a

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cloth. Jesus said to him, loose him and let him

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go. Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary

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and had seen the things that Jesus did believed

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in him. And then Jesus said, loose him and let

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him go. And we're going to talk today and teach

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today on the art. of intercession. Now, before

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we get into it, I first want to lay a foundation.

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First of all, who is Jesus? Obviously, he is

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the Christ. He is the son of the living God.

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Jesus was born of a virgin. There was no spiritual

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nature about him. The Holy Spirit, Luke 4, 1,

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he was full of and controlled by the Holy Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit is active in his life. and in

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his ministry. Jesus was filled with the Holy

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Spirit, but did not operate in all the nine gifts

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of the Spirit. Tongues and interpretation is

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only for this dispensation. Tongues just in general.

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But we know from watching the ministry of Jesus

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that he operated in the word of wisdom, word

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of knowledge, discerning of spirits, gift of

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faith. working in miracles. He operated in all

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the gifts of the Spirit, but we never saw Jesus

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speaking in tongues or interpreting in tongues

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because it was not yet for this dispensation.

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When Jesus arrives at the tomb of Lazarus, the

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atmosphere we find is charged with confusion.

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doubt, and unbelief. But Jesus reminds us who

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he is. He says, I am the resurrection and the

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life. The one who believes in me will live, though

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they will die. We also know that Jesus knew the

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voice of the father. He said in John 5 30, by

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myself, I can do nothing. I judge as I hear he

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knew the voice of his father. Not only that,

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remember, we're laying a foundation. Jesus understands

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the realm of the Spirit. He understands how to

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pray, and he has confidence in his Father's responding

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to his prayers. And Jesus also knew that with

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man, things can be impossible, but with God,

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all things are possible. With that being said,

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When we pray prayers according to the will of

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God, like Jesus did in this chapter that we're

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going to break down, what is impossible is possible.

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Now, who are we in Christ? Again, we're laying

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a foundation. Now we're in Christ. We are the

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temple of the Holy Spirit. As God has said, I

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will dwell in them. I'll walk in them. I'll be

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their God. They'll be my people. We have the

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Holy Spirit, the anointing, the unction on the

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inside of us. We are new creations in Christ

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Jesus. All things, the old nature has passed

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away. All things have become new. We are thankfully

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the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. And

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we know because we are the righteousness of God

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in Christ Jesus, the effectual fervent prayer

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of the righteous man avails much. We also know

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that Christ is in us, the hope of glory. So we

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have him on the inside of us. 1 John 4, 17 says,

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as he is. So are we in this world and in context?

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Jesus Christ, the Bible says, ever lives to make

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intercession. Therefore, Christ in us, the hope

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of glory, the intercessor, along with the help

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of the Holy Spirit, is on the inside of us. So

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the intercessor, Christ, Jesus, is on the inside

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of us. And why we are doing what we're doing

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and why we're teaching corporate prayer, why

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we... Do what we're doing even on this Zoom is

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for the Holy Spirit through the ministry of Jesus

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Christ to be loosed and let go. So let's talk

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about the art of intercession. Kenneth E. Hagin

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once said, if we are not careful, we will lose

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the art of intercession to generations to come.

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Now, when Jesus, the disciples came to Jesus,

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they said to Jesus, Lord. Teach us to pray. I

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believe in the context of what I'm going to share

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with you today, Jesus is teaching us what I would

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like to call the art of intercession. We know

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that we take the need. to the word of God. We

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agree with the word of God. We lay one hand on

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man, one hand on God. We are the intercessors,

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the go -between, the mediators. And we pray the

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word of God. And then after we've prayed all

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we know to pray, we enter in and we pray in the

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Holy Ghost. And when a person speaks in tongues,

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he doesn't speak to men. He speaks unto God,

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how be it in the spirit. He speaks mysteries.

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When we pray in tongues, we're praying out God's

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plan. God's purposes, God's will, because the

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spirit and the word, they agree. But I want to

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introduce you to something called what I call,

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what Kennedy Hagan calls, the art of intercession,

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where Jesus demonstrated it to us when he raised

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Jesus from the dead. So Jesus is an example to

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us as spirit -filled believers as we see him

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in John 11 operating in what we call the art

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of intercession. So Jesus in John 11 is our example.

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He teaches us to pray and shows us how to access

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a level of prayer that transcends Praying the

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Word of God and praying in tongues. We're not

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throwing out the Word of God. We're not throwing

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out tongues. We're not saying that. I'm talking

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about a prayer that transcends praying the Word

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of God and praying in tongues. There is another

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level of prayer that as we... yield ourselves

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to the Holy Spirit who's on the inside of us,

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as we yield ourselves to Christ the intercessor,

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we can enter into that will give birth to a miracle,

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that will give birth to a nation, that will give

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birth to someone who is not born again. And we

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hear about this word of God. God said that when

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Zion, which is the church, travailed, she brought

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forth her children. So this kind of prayer shows

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us how to access and it transcends praying the

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word of God in tongues. But it has to be initiated,

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very important, by the Holy Spirit. When one

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is available, this type of prayer will intensify

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when one yields and has time to devote themselves

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to prayer. Now Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit.

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Remember, he was filled with the Holy Spirit,

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Luke 4. He had the Holy Spirit on the inside

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of him. He was not separated from the Father.

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He was born of the Spirit. Now, when Jesus, filled

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with the Holy Spirit, looked at the situation

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before him, he chooses to yield to the Holy Spirit

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and flow in whatever expression was needed to

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bring about the deliverance of this person who

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was held captive in the grips of death. Now let's

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go back to the verse. Let's look here at verse

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33. Now, therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping

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and the Jews also who came with her weeping,

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what did he do? Did he say anything in his native

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tongue? No, the Bible says he groaned in the

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spirit. This is the language. the Spirit. This

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is communicating with the heart of the Father

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in an expression that the Father understands.

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So Jesus groaned in the Spirit and he was troubled.

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The Amplified says he was deeply moved in the

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Spirit and was troubled. He sighed and he was

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So Jesus groaned in the spirit. He yielded to

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the spirit of grace and supplication. At this

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moment, groaning is exactly the expression that

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was needed to bring forth deliverance. Why? I

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don't know why. We don't know why. Some things

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are better caught than taught. We lean not to

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our own understanding. We hook ourselves up to

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the inside of us. We pray the scriptures. We

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pray the word of God. We pray in tongues. But

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sometimes there is a time and a season and a

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purpose under heaven where something needs to

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be born. And therefore there's an inner stirring

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on the inside of the born again child. of god

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who's connected with the holy spirit and therefore

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there are groanings the bible says that cannot

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be uttered in articulate speech or your regular

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kind of speech and my friends this is a kind

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of prayer but it's like i said earlier it's not

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the kind of prayer that you generate up on your

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own we're going to get into it there's an anointing

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when you're in this place of prayer And it is

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initiated by the Holy Spirit. He searches the

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hearts. He knows what is the mind of the Spirit.

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He finds someone who is available. And he begins

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to stir deep down John 7, 38. and proverbs the

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spirit of man is the candle of the lord searching

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all the inward parts of the belly he stirs on

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the inside of the believer the house of prayer

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and he begins it's like a movement on the inside

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and you don't have words you it even goes beyond

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tongues it's more of a an expression of the spirits

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a groaning in the spirit so this was the the

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kind of praying that needed to be expressed expressed

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in order to bring deliverance to lazarus i'm

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going to go ahead and read it i quoted it but

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this is a teaching that really needs to be clarified

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romans 8 26 says likewise the spirit also helps

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in our weaknesses we do not know what we should

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pray for as we are but the spirit himself makes

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intercession for us with groanings which cannot

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be uttered now he who searches the hearts knows

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what is the mind of the spirit because now notice

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this he makes intercession for the saints according

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to the will of god the will of god was put in

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there by the translators but we could say the

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will of god that's fine but also according to

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god in god in other words god understands the

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groanings we don't understand it Arthur Wallace

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wrote a whole book on it, Prayer in the Spirit.

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We don't understand it, but God understands it.

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We don't even totally understand the laws of

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the realm of the Spirit, but God understands

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it. But when this kind of prayer begins to rise

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up within the born -again, baptized -in -the

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-Holy -Spirit believer, it's important for us

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to understand that it's okay. that we can yield

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over to him in this expression. So it says when

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we pray like this, we're praying according to

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the will of God or according to God. I like that

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better. And then we know that all things work

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together for the good to them that love God and

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are called according to his purpose. So if we're

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praying in groanings that cannot be uttered in

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articulate speech, and the Bible says that we're

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praying according to the will of God, what is

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the confidence that we can have? Does God hear

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us when we pray? When we enter into this kind

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of praying, does he hear us? Well, Jesus said,

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Father, I thank you that you hear me and you

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hear me always when I pray. Okay, so Jesus is

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our example. But does God hear us when we enter

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into that kind of praying with the help of the

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Holy Spirit and as Jesus as the intercessor rising

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up within us? It says here in John 5, now this

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is the confidence that we have in him. That if

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we ask anything according to his will, he hears

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us. And if we know he hears us, we know we have

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the petitions that we desire of him. So groaning

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is a type of prayer in the spirit. Okay? And

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I'm going to give you some definitions that I

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came up with just out of my own experience. When

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you're entering into this kind of prayer, You

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are more lost in the spirit when that happens.

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Everyone say lost in the spirit. But, you know,

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that's why it's important for us to have a devotional

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time and time with the Lord and have quiet time

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because we need to shut out the distractions,

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shut out the noise so we can hook ourselves up

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to the inside and yield to the spirit of prayer

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when there's things that need to be prayed for

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that we may have no natural knowledge of. So

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you are more lost in the spirit when it happens.

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When you're in this place of prayer, you sense

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compassion. It's compassion Romans 5 5 we know

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the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts

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by the Holy Spirit So when you're entering into

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this level of prayer, there is the love of God

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Rising up the compassion of God. It's almost

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like it's like a balloon and and as you yield

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to this kind of praying as the Spirit initiates

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it, the compassion of God is rising up. And it's

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like a balloon. It just gets bigger and bigger

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and bigger the more you yield over to Him. And

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there's empathy for the object of your prayer

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assignment. This is the place of prayer where

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there's compassion and empathy. And you see as

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He sees. You love as He loves. You desire what

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he desires, and that is that all men be saved

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and come to the knowledge of the truth. This

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is the place where you enter into identification

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and intercession. You weep with those who weep.

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You mourn with those who mourn. It's not just

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mental essence. It's in your spirit. You are

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connecting with the object of your prayer, and

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you feel and you sense the heart of God. And

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when you're in this place of prayer, there is

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an anointing. There's an anointing. And for me

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personally, I don't know about any of you, anytime

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I've ever entered into this level of prayer,

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there is an anointing. It's just like when we

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preach, we could be more anointed or less anointed.

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but no matter what the you know preaching works

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the word of god works same in prayer the prayer

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works and opens up the door for god to work when

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we pray the word prayed in tongues and when we

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enter into this kind of prayer whether we're

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anointed or not but let me tell you when you're

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in this level of intercession you're more conscious

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of what's going on on the inside of you than

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you are on what's happening on the outside of

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you. In other words, that which is within you

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is more real than anything in this outward world.

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Now, doesn't the Bible say that the kingdom of

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God is within you? Everything that's happening

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in this place of prayer is happening on the inside

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of you, your spirit by the Holy Spirit, and you're

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connected with the heart of God. Okay, now let's

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go over to verse 35. So Jesus groaned in the

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spirit and he was troubled. And he said, wherever

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you lay to verse 35, Jesus wept. He was weeping

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in identification for the ones that had lost.

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Was he weeping in identification for the ones

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who lost a family member? Or was he weeping in

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the spirit because of their unbelief? They thought

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he was weeping for soulless reasons. But I want

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to introduce this to you. They said, oh, behold,

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how we love him. But Jesus walked in the spirit.

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And he didn't yield to the dictates of the flesh.

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Jesus was weeping in the spirit. Jeremiah 9 .1

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says, oh, that my head were like waters and my

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eyes a fountain of tears, that I may weep day

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and night for the slain daughter of my people.

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Jeremiah was known as the weeping prophet. He

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saw. The backslidden condition of the people.

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And what he saw, please mute. What he saw affected

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his heart. He was weeping for the sins of the

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people. He was weeping for their backslidden

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state. They were out of God's will and coming

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under bondage of the enemy. As you read the book

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of Jeremiah, you will discover there was hardness

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of heart and rebellion. To change their condition,

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there was a call for weeping and mourning. So

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in other words, what he saw, oh wow, 1233, affected

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his heart. And so it reminds me of the scripture.

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found in jeremiah 9 17 where the bible says let's

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call for the weeping women that we may weep and

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mourn between the porch and the altar i believe

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god is raising up this kind of prayer once again

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in the body of christ very quickly i'm going

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to share with you what happens um on tuesday

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night i was lead i was teaching and leading guided

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prayer for one of our members, Evans Pierre,

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and his wife, Christine. And I was ministering

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their subject, their prayer focuses, the rising

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generations. And as I came to the end of the

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message, that anointing came upon me and rose

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up inside. And I just found myself. Everyone

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say, find myself. You just find yourself in this

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place of prayer. I found myself weeping and groaning

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and crying. And the heart of God was, you know,

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the rising generations and how we need to stand

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in the gap for the rising generations. And in

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that place of prayer, I had not been in that

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place of prayer in so long. And I long for that.

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Because when we enter into that kind of prayer

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for us as intercessors, It softens our heart.

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It does something for us as well. So it was quite...

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It was quite an encounter. We had an encounter

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of the spirit of prayer rising up and dropping

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on the hearts of all the parents that are on

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that call. And it brought us into a level of

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seeing as God sees, sensing his heart for the

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rising generations. It's one thing to have it

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at head knowledge. It's another thing when you

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sense and you feel his heart. So there is the

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same cry in the spirit today. And we're not going

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to get into it. So weeping is for both men and

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women. In the world, weeping is a sign of weakness.

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Weeping in the Holy Spirit is precious and powerful.

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Weeping is an expression of his heart, his emotions,

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and his nature. This weeping in prayer, like

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I said, also softens the heart of the intercessor.

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These moments connected with eternity are like

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treasures to be stored up in our book of memories,

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listen, as intimate times with God. I love that.

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So let's go back to our story, verse 38. It says

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here, then Jesus, again, groaning in himself,

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came to the tomb. Now this type of prayer. um

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at times you will find you will groan again in

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the spirit because birthing takes time So here

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we find Jesus groaning again in the spirit. It

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depends on the prayer assignment, right? Some

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people, you know, it takes longer to get them

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in through the prayer of intercession and through

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this type of prayer, get them into where a position

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where you can break off the strongholds and the

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things that have them bound. Okay, so let's go

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over. into verse 41 let's see what happened jesus

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again groaning and he says take away the stone

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okay and then he said didn't i tell you if you'd

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believe you'd see the glory of god then they

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took away the stone where the dead man was laying

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and jesus lifted up his eyes and i this is it

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this is it he said father i thank you that you

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have heard me and i know that you always hear

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me But because of the people who are standing

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by said this, that they may believe that you'd

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send me. Did Jesus pray anything in his known

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language? No. What did he do? What kind of praying

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did Jesus teach us in John 11? He groaned in

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the spirit and he was troubled. And then the

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Bible says Jesus wept. And what were the results?

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The results were, and he... The results were

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he that was dead came forth. So he groaned in

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spirit. He was troubled. And he said, Lazarus,

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come forth. And he who died came out. But obviously,

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we know the story. He was still bound with grave

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clothes. And Jesus said to him, loose him and

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let him go. Ephesians 2, 5 and 6 says, even when

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we were dead. In trespasses and sins. He has

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quickened us together with Christ. By grace you

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have been saved through faith. And has raised

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us up. This kind of praying. Will bring people

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out of the grips of hell. Out of the grips of

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spiritual death. It goes into the realm of the

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spirit. And it breaks off strongholds. We don't

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understand everything. I know I don't. But I

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know this kind of praying works. When Zion travails.

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she brings forth her children okay and then he

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says lose them and let them go there's some people

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kennethie hagan once said that will never be

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set free never be released unless someone prays

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for them someone stands in the gap for them someone

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prays for them i think that the spirit of god

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the spirit of grace and supplication in the days

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to come, and I prophesy this, is going to once

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again rise up within the believers, and the Holy

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Ghost is going to once again not only restore

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tongues to the church, but this kind of praying

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where the compassion of God rises up, and we

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begin to see as God sees, and the distractions

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that have kept us from entering into greater

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levels of prayer are going to be dispersed because

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the Holy Spirit And the anointing of God is going

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to help us break through our soulish nature and

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bring us into this kind of praying so that we

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can break off the strongholds that are in this

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world today. Thank you so much for tuning in

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

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this time with you. For more inspiration and

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