The Secret of Friendship with God Part 2

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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 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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does it return void, it produces results.

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Afraid because I was naked and then what did he do?

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He hid himself.

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And then God said to him,

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you know, who told you that you were naked?

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Have you eaten from the tree,

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which I commanded you not to eat?

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And the man said, oh, the woman you gave me,

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you know, she gave it to me and I ate.

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That's a whole other Bible study.

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And the Lord God said to the woman,

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what have you done?

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And the woman admitted her wrongdoing.

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She said, the serpent deceived me and I ate.

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This is fear, guilt and shame.

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And as a result, they hid themselves

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from the presence of God.

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How many of you have ever done that?

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You do something, you say something,

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you're a certain way,

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and then you're starting to hide from God.

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So instead of looking onto Jesus,

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the author and the finisher of your faith,

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you look away from him in distraction

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and your distraction is fear, worry, guilt

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and you're hiding yourself from the presence of God

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and God, Jesus is just saying,

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if you'll just come to me, I'll restore you.

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I'll heal you of your brokenness.

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I'll heal you of your disease.

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Come unto me.

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If you're tired, I'll give you rest.

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Listen, I say this to people

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and especially in the day and the season

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we live in today in this world.

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Don't run from Jesus.

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If you got stuff going on in your life, run to him.

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See, but that's where confidence comes in.

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There's confidence in the presence of God.

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When you know that you know that you know

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that God loves you, he will in no wise cast you out.

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When you know he loves you

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and he's knocking at the door of your heart

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and he's saying, would you please stop hiding from me?

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When you know he loves you,

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you'll turn back to him in faith

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and you'll look at him once again

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and then you'll go up and go on your merry way.

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I know people, I think actually I heard Kenneth Copeland say this.

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He used to eat like four loaves of bread

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with two sticks of butter.

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It's kind of funny to see that now, right?

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Because he's so skinny and fit.

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But you know, he was bogged down by guilt.

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And so he would be like, well, it may mean about three days.

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I'll look at Jesus and I'll have that connection

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with him once again.

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And one day the Lord said, and what are you doing?

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Listen, if you sin and you confess your sin,

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he is what?

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Faithful and just to forgive you of your sin

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and cleanse you from all unrighteousness.

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You don't have to wait three days

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to get rid of all the guilt.

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Just pick yourself up, brush yourself off and move on.

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There is no fear in love.

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But perfect love drives out fear.

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When you know that God loves you, you have nothing to fear.

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So think about John 3.16.

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He so loved the world that he gave his son.

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He would have given his son

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if it was just for you and you alone.

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You need to have that mindset

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and it'll give you confidence in the presence of God.

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So we have a righteousness consciousness

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and we have a sin consciousness.

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What is sin consciousness?

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You cover yourself or Adam covered and he covered themselves.

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They were afraid, they were naked, therefore they hid.

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What is righteousness consciousness?

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Second Corinthians 5, 17 through 21 says,

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if you're in Christ, which we are, we're hidden in him.

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We're hidden behind the cross.

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If we are in Christ, what are we?

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We're a new creation.

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All things pass away, all things become new.

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The sin nature is gone.

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The sin that passed from Adam to humanity is gone.

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Jesus was the second Adam, correct?

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So that sin nature is gone.

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So when the father looks at you, he sees his son

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and he sees the finished work of the cross.

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So you could have confidence in him.

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Confidence in his presence.

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Confidence that if you ask anything according to his word,

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he hears you.

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And you know that you have the petitions you desire.

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See, I know that I know that I know that I know

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that God's got me.

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And I have little examples all around my life

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popping up everywhere.

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God's got you.

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He loves you.

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He's got you.

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But you've gotta have that righteousness consciousness

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and that righteousness consciousness will give you

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confidence in the presence of God.

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Are you listening?

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Hebrews 11, six.

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But without faith, it is impossible to please him.

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So you think about it like, okay,

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secrets of friendship with God.

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It's all by faith.

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Blessed are those that believe

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and have never seen him physically.

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Kenneth E. Hagan had multiple visions of Jesus,

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but he still had to exercise his faith.

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It is impossible to please him.

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He who comes to God must what?

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Must believe that he is.

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And he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him.

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See, I believe that he is.

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And so do you, or you would be in church today.

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You'd be hanging outside with all the greenery

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and all the pollen and...

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We need the dogs and the kids.

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You wanted to hear from God.

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Okay, let's look at Hebrews 4.16.

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When you have confidence, you can approach God boldly.

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I love this.

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Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace

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that we may obtain mercy and find grace

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to help in time of need.

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Now that's a scripture that we could use

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if you need grace and mercy and help,

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go boldly to the throne.

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Lord, I have a problem.

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And you are the answer and I need your help.

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So that word boldly means in the websters, fearless.

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Let us come fearlessly to the throne of grace.

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It means taking liberties.

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Let's come fearlessly and let's take our place in Christ.

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I am the righteousness of God in Christ.

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Old things have passed away.

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Let us come shameless.

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That word also means shameless.

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I'm just gonna hide.

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I did something really bad.

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Move on.

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I said move on.

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But I can't.

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You can.

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I just need therapy.

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We all need therapy.

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I have a therapy session Monday night.

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So what?

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But I just can't.

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You can.

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Why?

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Because you can do all things

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through Christ who strengthens you.

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If he said what he said about you, then it's true.

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Whether you believe it or not, it's true.

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I'm hearing this in my spirit again.

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There is no fear in love.

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Perfect love drives out fear.

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He who fears is not made perfect in love.

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So here's a remedy to the problem.

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If you have that problem.

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Pray, I think it's Ephesians either one or three.

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Pray that you would have a revelation of the love of God.

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What is it?

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1-18.

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So Ephesians 1-18.

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Pray that over yourself.

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Not once.

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Pray it over and over and over.

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Lord, I just pray.

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I wanna understand your heart.

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I wanna know you.

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I wanna understand your love for me.

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And I'll tell you, if you've got insecurities,

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it'll drive them all out.

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Because you'll be like, no insecurities here.

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I know God loves me.

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This is a really good message.

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This is a really good message.

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See, people think that you're doing this.

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And we are the mouthpiece.

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But it's the Holy Spirit who speaks through the individual

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and gives inspired thoughts and creative ideas.

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You understand that?

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So the Greek word is pay a-r-r-e-s-i-a.

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It means the absence of fear speaking,

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boldly, confidence, cheerful, courage.

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So let's go boldly to the throne of grace

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with cheerful courage.

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So we have confidence.

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Then we have closet prayer.

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We're talking about the secrets to friendship with Jesus.

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I wrote a whole book on this.

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I have the whole thing.

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How to pray, find a room, get a journal,

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how to use your spiritual imagination.

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The whole thing.

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It's a really good book.

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It's called Encounter God.

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But we don't have time, but closet prayer.

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Here, let me show you something.

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Mark 4.32.

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And with many such parables, he spoke the word to them.

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He was meaning to the crowds as they were able to hear it.

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So he spoke to the crowds in parables and with stories.

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But look at this.

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How many of you want friendship with Jesus?

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But without a parable, he did not speak to them,

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meaning his disciples were taking this out of context.

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I'm just telling you who he's talking to.

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But without a parable, he did not speak to them.

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And when they were alone, he explained or he expounded

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all things to his disciples.

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Lord, show me your heart.

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I hear your heart in church, but I want to hear

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and know your heart when I'm by myself with you.

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Come away, my beloved.

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Spend time with me alone in a secret place

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where there is no thought of self,

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there's no thought of the refrigerator,

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there's no thought of needing to do anything,

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where you spend time alone with me face to face

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as a man speaks to his friend.

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And if you're mind wanders, bring it back

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and focus your attention once again on me,

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because I am an ever present help in the time of need.

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I'm here with you.

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I will never leave you.

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I will never forsake you.

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When you pray, I hear you when you pray,

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and I am literally standing right there listening,

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because my eyes will be open,

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my ears attentive unto all the prayers

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that you pray in that secret place.

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Are you not the temple of the Holy Spirit?

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I learned to pray in a closet, a literal closet,

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when I was at the Ramah Bible Training Center,

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because the Bible said in Matthew 6,6,

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if you do the Greek, it's a different word.

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We're not getting into it.

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It says, but when you pray, go into your room.

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Actually, that word, I believe in the Greek,

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means secret chamber.

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And when you have shut the door,

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pray to your Father who is in the secret place,

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and your Father who is in the secret place

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will reward you openly.

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You know, I'm hearing this,

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come away, my beloved.

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Is that a song of Solomon's scripture?

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Come away, my beloved.

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Spend time along with me.

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You are distracted about many things,

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and you have many troubles.

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If you'll just come to me,

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I will make the crooked way straight,

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and the rough places plain,

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and I will cause all things to work together

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for your good.

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But I need you to come away,

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because your strength is kept in prayer.

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Seven days without prayer makes one week.

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Why am I so distracted?

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Well, first of all, it's the phone, the internet,

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the computer has done damage to our brains.

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Do you know that?

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Right.

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We've got to get our focus back.

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And we are, and we will.

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So, closet praying creates closeness or intimacy,

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just like any other relationship, right?

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Husbands and wives, don't you take each other out to dinner

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so you could look at each other face to face

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and discuss whatever life is all about?

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And doesn't that create intimacy in your marriage?

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Are you listening?

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Same thing with Jesus.

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It's not works, it's relationship.

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Here's one of my favorite, and I couldn't wait to get to it.

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This is something I've been learning over the last few years,

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because I always taught about closet praying,

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and then God started teaching me about continual prayer.

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Now, before I get into it, remember this.

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You're the house of God.

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What does he say?

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My house will be called what?

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A house of prayer.

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You're the temple of the Holy Spirit.

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So God dwells in you.

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He lives in you.

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You're his God.

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You're his child.

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So I'm saying continual prayer.

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When I talk about continual prayer,

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I'm talking about just like closet prayer in a sense,

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meaning it's a habit that you could develop over time,

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practice, and patience.

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I'm just going to let that sink in.

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It's a practice that you can develop over time,

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practice.

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I forgot what I said when I go back and listen.

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I'll see.

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But it's a habit that you can develop and practice.

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It takes time.

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It takes focus.

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Give me some scripture, Mark.

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All right.

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Are you ready?

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1 Thessalonians 5.15,

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Pray without ceasing.

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How do you do that?

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Well, let me give you another scripture,

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and we can talk about it a little more.

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Ephesians 6.18,

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Praying always.

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How do you pray always?

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How do you pray without ceasing?

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Here's something that I've learned.

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Become God inside-minded, or God conscious.

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Looking inward as you go about your day.

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Remember, it takes practice.

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So let's give an example.

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So if I go to the grocery store,

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Lord, what do you think?

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Lord, what should I have for dinner?

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If he's my friend,

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I'm going to talk to him like I would talk to a friend.

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Lord, what do you think I should have for dinner?

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Am I being crazy?

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Super spiritual?

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If you lived with me,

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you'd see I'm a very normal human being.

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I'm not one of these super spiritual people.

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But I'm talking about the secrets to friendship with Jesus.

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Lord, what should I wear today?

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What do you think about this?

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Lord, give me wisdom.

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I've got a hard thing going on right now.

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Give me wisdom.

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Lord, I really need you to step in for me right now.

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I need the right people in my life at the right time.

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It's looking inward.

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And having a conversation with Jesus

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about everyday life,

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or you could have a conversation with him about his word,

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or you could have a conversation about whatever.

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I'm talking about continual prayer.

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Here's the Scripture.

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Ephesians 5, 18,

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do not be drunk with wine in which is dissipation,

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but be filled with the Spirit.

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How?

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Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns

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and spiritual songs,

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singing and making melody in where?

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Where?

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In your heart.

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To who?

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To the Lord.

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He thanks always for all things to God

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and the Father in the name of the Lord Jesus.

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So it's continual prayer.

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So think about it.

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You listen to Christian music mostly, I hope,

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because whatever goes in you comes out.

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So I practice, even though I like, you know,

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Celine Dion and some of you too,

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I just can't, for me, I'm not saying you.

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There's nothing wrong with their music.

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But for me, I don't want to listen to it.

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I'll tell you why.

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It disrupts my frequency to heaven.

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For me, I'm not saying I'm not putting this on anyone,

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because whatever you put in comes out.

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So if I listen to Christian, my Jesus culture

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and all the Hillsong or whatever,

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the kind of music you listen to,

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what about that song, The Blessing?

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May it's favor be upon you and your children,

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your children's children.

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And then my recent one is Sparrows.

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Have you heard that one?

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I love that song, my God.

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So I listen to this music,

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and so when I'm going about my day,

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I'm not on my knees,

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those songs come up where?

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In my spirit.

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You are a spirit.

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You have a soul.

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You live in a body.

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They come up in my spirit,

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because I put them in my heart.

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They're planted. They're coming up.

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So the Holy Spirit's job is to take the things of mine,

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Jesus said, and show it unto you.

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So he takes that song.

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He takes that hymn.

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He takes that scripture.

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It rises up in you,

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and the Holy Spirit's revealing Jesus to you

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in a deep and intimate way.

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And then you're like,

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wow, he does care about me

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more than he cares about the Sparrows,

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because he just spoke something to me.

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He gave me a half a scripture.

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That song, when I used to get songs in my heart,

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I'd be like, oh, I've just got a song in my heart.

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I realized one day,

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that's the Holy Spirit giving you the song,

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so it keeps your relationship with Jesus fresh and vibrant.

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I used to think, oh, the Holy Spirit,

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because I'd taught on the Holy Spirit for 20-something years,

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I'd say, oh, the Holy Spirit,

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you know, he comes into our services,

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he teaches through us,

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he gives us inspired thoughts,

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the Holy Spirit moves,

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the gifts of the Spirit, so on and so forth.

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One day I realized that another thing

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that the Holy Spirit does is,

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he keeps my relationship with Jesus fresh.

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This is really good teaching.

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Mase Keteh Ya Mahayah.

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I want my people to come to me.

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It's very simple.

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Continual prayer.

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So speaking to yourselves in songs and hands

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and spiritual songs, singing and making melody

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in your heart to the Lord.

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So it's a melody in your heart.

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How many of you, here's another thing,

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how many of you have ever had a song that you had in your heart

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and it played over and over and over in your jukebox, right here,

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hundreds of times throughout the day?

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And maybe just one verse of that song.

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That's continual prayer.

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That is friendship with Jesus.

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And it's friendship with Jesus where,

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in the secret place,

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where in your heart?

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Teresa and I, we went to a call of Florida

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and we ministered in the prisons.

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And I remember that one day, you know,

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what I'm going to say,

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tired, I was so tired, oh God,

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I could hardly keep my eyes open.

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I was so tired that day.

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And I had my head against the wall

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and I was just like, Lord, how am I going to minister to these women?

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We did men and women.

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I said, how am I ever going to do this?

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Just to give you a little background.

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I got up to preach, preach like an hour and 45 minutes,

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like a house on fire

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and said things I never heard myself say before.

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Thank God for the Holy Ghost.

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This is not the work of man,

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it's the work of the Holy Ghost.

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And so I remember this coming out of my heart,

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not even knowing the circumstances

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of what it's really like to be in prison.

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Thank God I've never been to prison,

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but I didn't know that they're told what to do

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and how to do it and line up

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and anytime they want, they can make them stand up

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and then they got to do a head count.

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They have no control over any part of their life at all.

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They're told what to do, how to do it,

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what to eat, what not.

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It's unbelievable.

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But you know, you just follow the leading of the spirit

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and I remember saying to the ladies, listen,

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no one can control your inward life.

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No one can control your inward life.

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You can have a melody in your heart to the Lord

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and sing to us in songs and hymns and spiritual songs.

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You can commune with Him in your own heart,

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even on your bed.

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David said, nobody can control that.

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You can develop that intimacy with Jesus

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that will carry you through anything.

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I'm going to say it again because now I have it in my notes.

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This is an art, this kind of praying.

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And it takes conscious practice until it becomes a habit.

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I have a habit of working out.

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What do you have a habit of doing?

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It's a habit.

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It's something you practice

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because you know you're going to get results, right?

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If it's a good habit.

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You will get results if you practice continual prayer.

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What will be the most incredible result?

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What would be the best reward having intimacy with Him?

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Like a friend.

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Lastly, contemplative prayer.

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I call it praying in your bed.

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This is a good one when you reach,

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when you're over 50.

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Because you know that closet praying,

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all that interceding, right?

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You know you're interceding, you're doing warfare.

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You know, I've been learned that praying in my bed is praying.

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And it's not lazy.

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And I have verses for that.

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Psalm 63-6, this is David.

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Now remember, David made a lot of mistakes.

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But one thing that nobody could take from him

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is that he had a heart after God.

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Are you listening?

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David said, when I remember you on my bed,

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I meditate on you in the night watches.

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You go to bed, I had three kids in one year.

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Man, when I used to lay in my bed at night,

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they were all in their cribs.

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And the Franklin, of course, would always be out.

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One time she even broke out of her crib.

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But for the most part, when I put them in bed,

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they stayed in bed.

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And I'd lay in my bed, and I couldn't do closet praying.

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You know, the devil would like to condemn you for that.

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But when I'd lay in my bed, I would just commune with my heart,

537
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in my heart to the Lord.

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And I would sing in melodies and songs, whatever.

539
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Here's another scripture.

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Well, I don't have another one.

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It's all right, I'm done.

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But I want to say this, how many of you have ever

543
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awakened in the middle of the night,

544
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and instead of, I would encourage you,

545
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worrying about all your problems,

546
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why don't you start singing in your heart to the Lord?

547
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Make your bed your prayer closet.

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Listen, I've done that.

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Because, even though it's strong,

550
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would be going over and over and over and over and over.

551
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And after a while, I started to notice,

552
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and I got to get this back because I've lost it.

553
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Because when you're in relationship with somebody,

554
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you got to keep it vibrant.

555
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You got to keep that communication open, right?

556
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And I can remember one time I was having over and over

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just talking to God, talking to God,

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just the scripture, just thinking about Him,

559
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and meditating on the Word, just laying in my bed.

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And I noticed my heart started to burn.

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And He excelsed Him so near to me.

562
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And it's a burning in your heart.

563
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It's not acid reflux.

564
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There's a difference.

565
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It's a burning.

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And then the scripture came to me,

567
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did not our hearts burn?

568
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When He walked with us,

569
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and He was going from all throughout all the scriptures

570
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about Himself?

571
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It's a burning.

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Let's stand.

573
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Secrets to friendship with Jesus.

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I want that.

575
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What a beautiful teaching this was.

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You have to understand,

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this is something that's very difficult to teach.

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If you don't have the Holy Spirit helping you.

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You understand?

580
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And I believe even those of you that were listening online,

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there was something imparted to you.

582
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And I believe that God

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is raising up a people that will know Him

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in these last days.

585
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Not just the psychology of the gospel.

586
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You can do it. You can win.

587
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We're talking about truth intimacy with God.

588
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Isn't that what we need?

589
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So I'm going to pray over you before we disappear.

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First of all, I want to make sure you're saved.

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With the heart,

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that believes unto righteousness,

593
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with the mouth,

594
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confession is made unto salvation.

595
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If you want to know that Jesus

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that we talked about today,

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I want you to say this prayer with me.

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Let's all pray it together.

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Heavenly Father,

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thank you for your word.

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Thank you for showing us Jesus.

602
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I'm not sure I know Jesus.

603
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And I want to know Him.

604
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So Jesus, today,

605
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I'm asking you to come into my heart.

606
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I'm asking you to invade my life.

607
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I'm asking you to be the Lord of my life.

608
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And now I'm going to pray over you.

609
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So Heavenly Father,

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I thank you for every person

611
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under the sound of my voice.

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I pray that they would come to know

613
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and understand the wonders of your person.

614
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I pray that they would come to know

615
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,760
and understand your heart.

616
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I pray that there would be an increase

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of revelation in the knowledge of you.

618
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The eyes of their understanding being enlightened.

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That they would know it is the hope of their calling.

620
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And that is to know you

621
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in a greater depth of intimacy.

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In Jesus' name.

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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.