The Role of Prayer in Securing Our Children’s Destiny

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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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And we're gonna go ahead and get,

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we don't wanna waste our time.

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We wanna get as much time as we can.

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And those that are coming in later,

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they'll just chime in and can join us.

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But let's welcome and thank God for our leader today,

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a prophet, Mark.

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Amen.

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Hello everyone, good morning, good afternoon,

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wherever you're coming from.

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We're gonna go ahead, I'm gonna do a teaching

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and while I'm teaching, we will all be muted

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and then during the prayer, we will unmute.

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This is my third guided prayer this week.

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So it's interesting the direction

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that the Holy Spirit has been taking me personally,

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but we had three or four witches in our meeting,

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a prayer meeting last night in Brick, New Jersey

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and halfway through the service, not even halfway,

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they all got up, they were sitting in the front row,

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of course, and they left.

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So warfare can be discerned by, you can sense confusion.

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For me, it was more like, it was like,

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I was in a cold refrigerator,

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but once they left, that all left.

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So the enemy doesn't like the message that we bring,

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the enemy doesn't want believers to pray,

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but the Bible says men ought to always pray and not faint.

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So we're gonna continue to pray,

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prayer opens up the door for God to work

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and we have not because we ask not

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and that's why the enemy would like to stop people

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from praying and I've seen more often than not,

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it's usually the cares of this world,

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the deceitfulness of riches and the lusts of other things

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that enter in and choke people's prayer lives.

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So like us today, we're just making a commitment,

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we're gonna join prayer together, we're gonna pray,

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one will chase a thousand to flight,

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two will put 10,000 to flight.

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So I'm really happy that we're all on together.

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The prayer focus today, interestingly,

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the prayer focus will be for our children,

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our grandchildren and our God children.

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And many of you are leaders and we have no greater joy

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than to see our children walking in the truth.

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And I think sometimes we're so busy reaching,

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our congregations and feeding the flock of God

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and it's important that we also stand in the gap

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and believe God and pray for our own children

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and our own families.

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And so that's gonna be the prayer focus today,

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praying for our children, our God children

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and our grandchildren.

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Now, while we're getting into the teaching,

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this is what I would like everyone to do.

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I did it myself.

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While we're getting ready, write down right where you are,

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the names of those young people

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that you're gonna be praying for.

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Obviously, some of them are not so young.

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My twins are 33 and Jacqueline's 32.

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So write down their names.

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I like to tell people to do that

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because it gives them a prayer focus.

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So when your mind starts to wander,

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it brings you back into focus.

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I have, for me, I have my kids' names,

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the meanings of their names.

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And then I have, this is my daughter-in-law,

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my other daughter, Jacqueline.

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And then my son-in-law,

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I didn't have a picture of him down here in my office,

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so I put his name on a post-it.

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So remember that we're praying all manner of prayer,

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but the prayer of intercession is the kind of prayer

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that requires perseverance.

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So in other words, it's not a,

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you pray, you believe, you receive, and you have.

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No, this is the kind of prayer

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where you continually go into the presence of God.

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You bring your children before the presence of God,

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before the face of God.

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You pray the scriptures over and over

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and over and over on their behalf.

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This is the kind of prayer that requires perseverance.

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It's not praying for ourselves.

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It's standing in the gap,

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putting up the hedge on the behalf for today

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of our children, our grandchildren, and our God children.

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I know many of you who are leaders,

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you have God children,

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children that weren't born into your family,

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but they're born by the Spirit of God,

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and they are those that God has put in your care

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for you to watch over, for you to pray,

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for you to stand in the gap for.

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Okay?

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So there is a conflict, and I think we all know that,

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but, you know, and we are not ignorant of Satan's devices.

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And there is a conflict.

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Colossians 2, 1 through 5 says,

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I want you to know what great conflict I have for you

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and those that are in Laodicea.

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That word conflict in the Greek is A-G-O-N,

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and it means to race against spiritual foes.

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So Paul was saying,

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I want you to know what great conflict I have for you

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and those that are in Laodicea.

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There is a race against spiritual foes.

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That word also means there's a struggle.

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So there's war over the hearts and destinies

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of our children, our grandchildren, our God children.

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He is afraid of them rising up

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and being everything that God has called them to be,

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especially those of us who are in leadership positions.

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You know, the Spirit of God, generally speaking,

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you know, uses our children to continue in the ministry

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He's called us to.

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Now, we don't call them

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and we don't want to put pressure on them,

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but generally speaking, I've seen it more than not

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that a lot of times there is one child

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or one of the children or grandchildren

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that's called of God with the call of God on their life.

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And that's why sometimes we will see the enemy

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attacking one child more than another child

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because he sees something on the inside of them

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that is a gift, that is an anointing.

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He sees the presence of God, the call of God,

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and therefore he wants to stop them

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before they even get to the place

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where their gift is developed and then eventually unwrapped.

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Now, I know as I'm speaking to you today,

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I know that the Holy Spirit is enlightening you,

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He's guiding you, He's speaking to you,

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and He's talking to you,

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I would say about a particular child

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or maybe just all of your children.

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That's the beauty of prayer

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is we allow the Holy Spirit to lead us

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and to guide us in our prayer time.

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Okay, so there is a conflict.

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Okay, verse five says,

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"'Though I'm absent in the flesh,

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"'I am present in the Spirit.'"

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So the apostle Paul, this conflict is taking place

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in the realm of the Spirit, okay?

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And this is the place where the enemy likes to do his work.

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So those of us as we pray today,

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though we're absent from them,

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we're present with them in the Spirit.

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My one daughter, Jacqueline, she's going,

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she's on a plane and she's on her way to Newark

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and she's on her way to a work event overseas.

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Well, I'm with her, even though I'm not physically with her,

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I'm with her in the Spirit.

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That's why sometimes you can get your children on your heart

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and it's so real to you.

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It's more real to you than this table or the door

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or whatever the case may be.

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That is a prayer assignment.

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You sense them, you have a love for them, you feel them.

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Well, that's the Holy Ghost enlightening us as parents

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that they need prayer.

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We may not know what it is,

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and that's the beauty of praying in the Holy Ghost.

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So though we can be absent from them in the natural,

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we can be present with them in the Spirit.

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So in the Spirit, when we pray today,

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we are gonna lay one hand on them, one hand on God,

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and we're the intercessors, we're the mediators,

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and we're gonna pray for them,

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and prayer opens up the door for God to work.

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When we pray, it's gonna release the things of God

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on their behalf and we are going to see God.

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God said, call upon me on the behalf of your children

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and I will show you some great and mighty things.

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But Margie, you don't know how bad it is for my one child.

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My one child, it's just so bad.

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Well, we're sin abounds, grace does so much more abound.

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Look at the life of the Apostle Paul, right?

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The Apostle Paul, I mean, he's persecuting the church,

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he's on the wrong road, heading in the wrong way,

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thinking he was doing the right thing.

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But when he had an encounter with Jesus Christ,

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the blinders came off of his eyes and everything changed.

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And that's what prayer will do,

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and we're gonna talk about this.

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Prayer will cause the blinders to come off of their eyes,

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the chains to come off of their hands,

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not in the natural where we're doing it physically

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by praying for them physically in a prayer line

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or in a church or right in our homes.

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No, we can activate our faith, activate our authority

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in the realm of the Spirit right here where we are,

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right here today, and this kind of prayer

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will open up the door for God to work.

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Now, as we get into our teaching before we pray,

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because I think faith comes by hearing

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and hearing by the word of God,

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let's talk about two promises, just two.

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In my book, Contents, Stewarding the Hearts and Destinies

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of Our Children Through Prayer, in the back of the book,

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I have over 70 promises concerning our children

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that we can stand on.

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And we know that all the promises of God are yes and amen.

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And so if God gave us a promise about our children,

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that we're standing on it and we're not moving,

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we're gonna be steadfast, immovable,

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standing on those promises that are yes and amen

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that I will be saved and my entire household.

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So there's many scriptures, many promises,

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but I'm gonna bring out two.

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Psalms 112, one and two says,

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blessed are those who fear the Lord.

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That's all of us, all of us who are on this Zoom meeting

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today, now we have 35, we're halfway there, Apostle Calvin.

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As Psalms 112, one and two says,

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blessed are those who fear the Lord,

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who find great delight in His commands.

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Isn't that us, right?

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We're radical parents, we're radical in ministry,

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we're radical for God, but we see our kids kind of floundering

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or we see our kids, they're not in church

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because one of their leaders fell

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and completely disappointed them

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and therefore they're confused about the things of God.

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But we find delight in His commands

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and we can do something about what's going on in their lives.

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Their children will be mighty in the land.

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Yes, our children, my children, your children,

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because we fear the Lord, they will be mighty in the land.

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The generation of the upright will be blessed, right?

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It's the promise of God that our children,

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our children's children will be blessed, right?

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Here's another verse, Isaiah 54, 13,

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all of your children, not just some, not just a few, no, no.

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We're not, we're radical, right?

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All of our children, grandchildren and God children

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will be taught of the Lord and great will be the peace

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and the amplified, I says,

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and the undisturbed composure of our children.

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But I don't see them walking in peace.

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I don't see that happening.

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Well, we together, we're gonna pray

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and prayer opens up the door for God to work.

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Now listen, when we pray, and I feel led to say this,

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sometimes things get worse before they get better.

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Did you hear what I said?

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Why does that happen?

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And it took me a while to figure that out

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because we're going into the realm of the Spirit, right?

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We're going in and we're commanding the devil,

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take your hands off of them.

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We're going into the realm of the Spirit,

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we're praying the word of God

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and we're praying in the Holy Ghost.

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And whatever's affecting them,

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whatever is influencing them is number one,

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gonna make them feel uncomfortable, right?

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So they're gonna act out, right?

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Because they're resisting the will of God

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or the things of God.

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Or number two, it's the enemy.

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He doesn't wanna give up his stronghold, right?

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He's gonna put up a stake,

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just like when Jesus cast the devil out of the little boy,

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right?

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He commanded the devil to leave

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and what did the demons do?

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They had to put on a show, put up a stake, put up a fight.

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The boy fell on the floor.

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What did he do?

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Like I think he made a big scene

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and those demons came out.

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So I don't want any of you to get discouraged

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when things begin to get worse.

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And this is what I just heard in my spirit

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because progress is being made in the Spirit.

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So when you see that kind of thing happening

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where they get worse in the natural,

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just know that in the Spirit,

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your prayers are opening up the door for God to work

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and their soul is reacting

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and the demons that are influencing them are reacting.

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Okay, so what do we pray?

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Here's a specific prayer

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that the Spirit of God gave me this morning.

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Ephesians 1, 17 through 21.

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Yes, it's a very famous passage of Scripture.

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Yes, we probably bring this Scripture out every single time.

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We know the Scriptures, but are we being doers of it?

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That's the question.

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But this is an amazing prayer and I'm gonna break it down.

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The Ephesians 1, 17 through 21,

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one thing to remember,

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especially if your kids are church kids,

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they've been in church,

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but they're not where they should be

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in the things of God, right?

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Their Spirit has eyes, right?

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We have eyes in the natural,

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but we also have what the Scriptures calls

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the hidden man of the heart.

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And the hidden man of the heart,

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our spirit has eyes.

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And so we can believe and we can pray

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that God will anoint their eyes with eyes salve

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that they may see.

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We could pray this verse,

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and we're gonna break it down,

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that the eyes of their understanding

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would be open and enlightened,

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that their eyes would be flooded with light

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so that they would walk in wisdom and revelation.

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Wisdom and revelation.

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Revelation is that which becomes real.

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In other words, it's so real

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that they walk in the light of it.

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It's taking head knowledge,

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head knowledge going into the heart.

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And when it gets into the heart,

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that's when faith is activated.

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And that's when they walk in the light

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of what they have in their heart.

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So here's a good prayer.

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We're gonna break it down.

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Verse 17 says that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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the Father of glory,

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may give you our children, grandchildren,

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and God children,

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the spirit of wisdom and revelation

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in the knowledge of him.

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Now, Paul prays for the believers

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to receive spiritual wisdom and insight.

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He emphasizes knowing God more deeply,

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highlighting the importance

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of a personal relationship with him.

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Right?

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Isn't that what we want for these young people?

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That the eyes of their understanding would be open

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so that they would have a deeper,

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more intimate relationship with him.

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And verse 18,

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having the eyes of your hearts enlightened,

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that they may know what is the hope

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to which he has called them,

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and what are the riches of his glorious inheritance

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in the saints.

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This verse speaks to the idea of spiritual enlightenment,

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which we said,

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Paul desires that all believers' hearts and minds

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be open to understand the hope of their calling

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and the significance of their inheritance

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as God's children.

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It underscores the blessings and the promises

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that come from being a part of God's family.

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This is a beautiful prayer for us to pray for our children.

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Why?

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Because it'll help them to understand the significance

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of their inheritance as a child of God.

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And I don't know about you,

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I have these three kids born in 1992.

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It's just incredible to me that they were in my house,

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they heard me teach, they heard me preach.

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I'm not a perfect parent,

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but you don't have to be a perfect parent,

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but you could be a praying parent, right?

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And, but it just amazes me

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that they don't fully grasp or understand

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who they are in Christ.

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They don't understand like the scriptures like we do,

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or their inheritance, or just some things, you know,

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that I guess just hasn't been taught them.

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So this prayer is gonna help that.

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Verse 19, and what is the immeasurable greatness

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of his power toward us who believe

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according to the working of his great might?

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Here Paul emphasizes that as he prayed,

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and let's say it like this, as we pray,

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the incredible power of God will be, not maybe, not hope so,

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not maybe, will be at work in our children,

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grandchildren, and God children.

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Through prayer, Paul desired, and we desired them,

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to grasp the magnitude of God's power,

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which is available to those who have faith.

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Our children who know Jesus, but may not have him as Lord,

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will be affected as we pray.

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God's desire and will is that they walk

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in the fullness of this power,

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and that it is actively working

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in the lives of this prayer focus today.

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Now, I don't know about you,

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but I could tell you from personal experience,

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I mean, I have a lot of responsibilities in ministry,

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and in my personal life, and so on and so forth.

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And I can tell when I've lifted off the grass

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of my hold in the Spirit,

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I'm not talking about controlling them

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and being a helicopter parent, I'm talking about in prayer.

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I can tell when I've lifted off of my hold

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and gotten a little lax in my prayers,

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I can tell over time, because you know, people backslide,

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little by little by little, are you listening?

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I can tell that when I release my hold,

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that the kids, there'll always be kids, right?

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Am I right about that, you guys?

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How many could say yes, they'll always be kids,

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no matter how old they get.

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I can see the difference between when I'm leaning in

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and praying on their behalf, and really going for,

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and when I've gotten too busy

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and not made my children a prayer focus.

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We pray for everybody else, we pray for our congregations,

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we lead corporate prayer,

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but what about our own children, right?

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I don't know about you, but that's what God

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has been saying to me lately more than ever.

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Verse 20 said that he worked in Christ

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when he raised him from the dead

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and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places.

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This verse connects God's power to the resurrection of Jesus.

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Can you imagine if these young people understood the power

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of the resurrection and the authority

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that Jesus brought back when he spoiled principalities

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and powers and made a show of them openly

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and triumphed over them in his death, burial,

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and resurrection, can you imagine these kids

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having a revelation of the resurrection

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that the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead

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dwells in them, and that this resurrected Lord Jesus Christ

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will quicken their mortal body,

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will help them to think, help them to succeed,

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that they would know the powerful revelation

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of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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We can pray that they would, right?

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And again, prayer opens up the door for God to work.

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So this verse is a prayer for us to pray

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for spiritual growth and understanding for our children, okay?

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And I wanna say this, focusing on for them

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to know God for themselves.

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They see the God in us working,

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they see the power of God in us working,

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and our intimacy with Jesus, and the whispers of God,

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and the dreams, and the times we hear from God,

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but God wants our children, these young people,

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to know him for themselves, okay?

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So as we pray, the Holy Spirit will rise up in them

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and come upon them so that they will see the power

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that is available through their faith in Christ.

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Now, number two, what about your children

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that are unbelieving, right?

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How do we pray?

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I'm not gonna read the whole scripture for the sake of time,

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but we, I'm telling you, and this is,

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you could pray this every day for them.

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If you have a child or someone in your spirit of influence

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that does not know Jesus, I believe

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one of the greatest prayers we can pray

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is Ephesians 3, 18 through 20,

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and that prayer is that they would be rooted

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and grounded in love, that Christ would dwell

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in their hearts through faith, and that they would be rooted

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and grounded in love, that they would comprehend,

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understand with all the saints, listen,

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what is the width and length and depth and height,

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and that they would know the love of Christ

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which passes knowledge.

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I believe that the greatest revelation anybody in general

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can have is the revelation of the love of God,

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because it's the revelation of the love of God

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that drives out fear.

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And as an unbelieving child, a young person

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is influenced by the Holy Spirit, right?

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Because when we pray, He convicts and He convinces them

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of their need for Jesus amplified, right?

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I think it's John 16.

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So when we pray, the Holy Spirit begins to influence them,

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and the love of God begins to surround them,

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and it'll cause them to be convicted,

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because it's the goodness of God that leads to repentance.

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I know for me, when I always loved God my whole life,

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I have a picture, I was just looking at it today

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of me as a good little Catholic girl,

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and I was holding my prayer book, I always loved God,

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I had a heart for Him my whole life.

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But there was a time when I was like 12, 13,

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that sin revived and I died and I was separated,

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I didn't really understand what that meant,

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but I had reached a place of accountability

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where I needed to accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior,

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that He was not on the cross, He was alive forevermore,

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nobody told me I needed to receive Him.

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But I remember when I was going through that transition

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of not sensing His presence anymore

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and not having that connection,

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and to when I got born again eventually,

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which was only about maybe 30, 40, 50 years ago,

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it was about three, three, three and a half years.

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And I remember being in the car

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and a secular song would come on,

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and I don't know, I want you to show me the way,

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I want you to show me the way.

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It's some secular song, somebody one day told me

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who sang it and who it was, but it's a secular song.

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And when that song came on,

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I could feel the Holy Ghost right now,

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the Holy Ghost would come in my car,

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I didn't know it was Him at the time,

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and He would convict me and I would feel the love of God,

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and it became a prayer in my heart,

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and it became a prayer to God.

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Lord, I want you to show me the way.

522
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I didn't know that Jesus was the way,

523
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the truth and the life, I didn't know that verse,

524
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but it became a prayer of my heart

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and there was conviction in that car.

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And I found out later that the pastors of a church

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at the time and my charismatic, born again,

528
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tongue-talking mother, Catholic Cares man,

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they were all praying for me,

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they made me their prayer assignment,

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and they started praying for me,

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and because prayer opens up the door for God to work,

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it released the convicting power of the Holy Spirit,

534
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and very real, and it worked,

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because one day I'm in my bedroom,

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00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,200
and I just was like, wanted to be saved so bad,

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didn't understand how, because nobody preached to me,

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nobody told me, and I heard an audible voice

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on the inside or outside, I don't know where it came,

540
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,360
it really came from within,

541
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and I was like, what do I have to do to be saved?

542
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What do I have to do to be saved?

543
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And I just was so desperate for God,

544
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because let me tell you, these kids,

545
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in the hearts of all of these kids, they want God.

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I'm telling you, they, yes, they're acting out

547
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because they want God, they need God,

548
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and they're just trying to find Him

549
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in all the wrong places.

550
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So I said, Lord, what must I do to be saved?

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And I just kept saying it and saying it and saying it,

552
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night after night after night,

553
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and one night I heard the audible voice of God,

554
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he said, only believe, and literally a light came on,

555
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my eyes were open, I said, I believe, that's all I said.

556
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I was literally taken and translated

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out of the power of darkness,

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and translated into the kingdom of light,

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a very real spiritual experience,

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it happened in my bedroom,

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because the prayers of my mother,

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and the pastor, and his wife,

563
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don't ever underestimate the power of your prayers.

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Suddenly, your prayers will work.

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Suddenly, you'll see the manifestation.

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So we should pray that our unbelieving young people

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have a revelation of the love of God,

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and then pray Matthew 9, 37 through 38.

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Pray that the Lord of the harvest

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would send forth laborers across their path, pray that.

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Jesus said it himself, therefore pray.

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Why do we pray?

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Because man is God's avenue into the earth,

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we have to pray, we have the authority, we have to pray.

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Some of the people,

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I'm not gonna get into this in the grace movement,

577
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oh, I stopped praying, you know,

578
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,360
it's case said, oh, said, oh, because it's all by grace,

579
00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:15,440
no, we gotta pray.

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Jesus said, pray, what?

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Pray that the Lord of the harvest would send forth laborers,

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in this case, across the paths of these young people.

583
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And I can guarantee you, they'll be sitting at a bar,

584
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they'll be sitting in school,

585
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:32,600
and the Holy Spirit, who is the director,

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00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,520
he will lead, guide, and direct an unbelieving person

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00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,760
to be a light and a witness to them,

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to preach the gospel to them, that this is the day

589
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and the acceptable year of the Lord,

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00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:45,080
now is the day of salvation.

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And because you've prayed,

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00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,000
when the laborer comes across their path,

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00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,760
you know, they will be in a spiritual position

594
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,360
to have their eyes of their understanding open

595
00:27:56,360 --> 00:27:58,280
in revelation, and they'll see Jesus,

596
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,760
and they'll accept him as their personal Lord and savior.

597
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:04,240
Some plant, some water, God gives the increase.

598
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,480
We, a lot of us as parents, we're sowing a lot of tears,

599
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,520
but our tears, we're gonna reap them in joy,

600
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because we have no greater joy

601
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,040
than to see our children walking in the truth,

602
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:19,160
and God's promised us salvation for our homes.

603
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,080
Lastly, we need to pray,

604
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because Satan is the God of this world,

605
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,080
2 Corinthians 4, three and four,

606
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:29,200
he's the God of this world, he's blinded their minds.

607
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:34,200
So we use Mark 16, we take authority over the devil

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on their behalf.

609
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,960
They have no authority, they have no rights

610
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,840
and no privileges, but we take authority over them

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00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:43,880
on their behalf.

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If you just joined us, I asked everyone to write down

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the names of the young people in your spirit of influence,

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00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,760
your children, your grandchildren, your God children,

615
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,840
we are going to pray, this is our prayer focus today,

616
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and we are going to pray for them,

617
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having their names or having a picture of them,

618
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or writing their names on a post-it,

619
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it's a prayer focus and it keeps us focused as we pray.

620
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So that's what we're gonna do.

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I'm gonna go ahead and unmute,

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and I'm gonna lead in prayer,

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and we'll just see how the Holy Ghost takes us.

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Thank you so much for tuning in to today's podcast,

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it has been such a joy sharing this time with you.

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For more inspiration and resources on today's topic,

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please visit our website at margiefloran.org.

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Thank you.